Many coral reefs under the sea of Phu Quoc Island, off southern Vietnam, have disappeared due to climate change and water pollution over the past several years, the local conservation agency has said. The pollution of the sea water environment is...
The General Hospital in Vietnam’s northern province of Thai Nguyen has successfully conducted a kidney transplant for a twin, marking the first case of its kind in the province. The operation took place on Sept 30 with technical support from doctors...
Bird flu A/H5N6 has broken out in Vietnam’s northern province of Lai Chau, infecting nearly a thousand poultry units in a local farm, said the Animal Health Department under Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. Local authorities discarded...
Denmark will continue its assistance for Vietnam in education and sustainable and green development, reaffirmed Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen. The Danish foreign minister made this statement at a meeting with Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister cum...
Vietnam’s government has bestowed the Friendship Medal upon Mr. Edward Danielraj Selvanayagam, Senior Operations Director of World Vision International, for his restless contributions towards poverty alleviation in Vietnam over the past years. This...
As many as 43 million people in Vietnam had escaped from hunger and poverty in a period of 15 years starting in 1993 thanks to the programs that the Vietnamese government has pursued under the support of foreign countries and organizations,...
Chairman of Vietnam’s National Assembly (NA) Nguyen Sinh Hung has urged the government to provide further support for ethnic minorities, which are among the most vulnerable groups in the country. The government should spend more on infrastructure,...
Though education projects funded by official development assistance (ODA) in Vietnam have helped many localities in improving the teaching quality, many experts in the field still complain of the inefficiency of such projects, the Dau Tu newspaper...
The Global Environment Fund (GEF) has funded a project to boost biodiversity preservation in Vietnam through the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). A conference was held in Hanoi on September 22 to review the implementation of the National...
Along with the hike in medical services, many drugs and vaccines sold as optional services surged from the beginning of the year. Though the prices of vaccines in Vietnam have not surged massively, many of them increased bringing much...
