Vietnam’s Ministry of Transport has kicked off a VND2.87 trillion ($128 million) project to build the Hung Ha bridge and roads linking with the bridge in the presence of Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai. The 2-kilomter bridge is part of the 6-...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health (MoH) Tuesday advised parents to take their children to medical clinics nationwide to get Quivaxem vaccine instead of waiting for Pentaxim vaccine, state media reported. Waiting for the Pentaxim is very dangerous for the...
More than 1,000 workers at a Hong Kong-invested garment company in Vietnam’s northern city of Haiphong City were hospitalized on Dec 28 on suspicion of food poisoning, and 277 of them are still under treatment in local hospitals, state media has...
Drought will continue to affect the central region of Vietnam, especially the Central Highlands, this year due to the effect of the El Niño weather phenomenon, according to a recent report by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. The...
The national education channel-VTV7 will officially go on air on the first day of 2016, Vietnam National Television’s Deputy General Director Pham Viet Tien said on December 28. VTV7, which is operated by Ministry of Education and Training, Vietnam...
Local authorities are willing to spend trillions of dong to build imposing monuments, but are hesitant to spend money for nursery schools. A report of the World Bank shows that Vietnam has 15,500 under-six children who are deaf or hearing impaired....
Military personnel in the Central Highlands have found nearly 300 kilograms of unexploded grenades left behind from the Vietnam War in the last few days besides a deadly 200-kilogram bomb. Officers working in Kon Tum Province found the giant bomb on...
The community-based health care and first aid project has helped improve health and self-recovery ability of the poor and vulnerable people in Ba Thuoc district, central Thanh Hoa province, according to the Vietnam Red Cross. The project, sponsored...
Ethnic groups with a population of less than 5,000 each have been given a better education in the past five years, according to the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET). The project on education development for ethnic minority groups basically...
Many countries and organizations have planned to stop providing official development assistance (ODA) for Vietnam, imposing challenges for Vietnam to seek other funds for its development, state media reported, citing a Vietnamese ministry. The UK is...
