Vietnam needs estimated VND7.5 trillion ($335 million) to control HIV/AIDS in the 2016-2020 period and the country could cover nearly 90% of the total figure only, Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long said at a conference on Sept 24. The...
Pollution from waste water released by shrimp farms has killed millions of farmed shrimp in central Quang Tri Province, causing "huge losses" for farmers, Vietnam News reports. The province's veterinary authorities said 79 out of 223 hectares of...
Vietnam is quickly finishing the Intended National Determined Contributions to participate in the 21st Conference of Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, set to be held in Paris this December. Countries across...
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in collaboration with the United Kingdom Embassy co-organized a seminar about raising public awareness of climate change towards the 21st Conference of Parties in Hanoi, on September 23. At the seminar,...
Vietnam’s government is estimated to spend VND224.826 trillion (about $10 billion) on education and training in 2015, equal to approximately 20% of the state budget expenditure for this year or 5% of the gross domestic product (GDP) recorded...
Tuition fees at Vietnamese universities and colleges may spike up 10% a year starting next academic year, local media reported Sept 25 citing a draft document on new ceiling tuition fees made by the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET). The new...
Vietnamese prime minister has given the nod to a project on developing distance learning in the 2015-2020 period, aiming to verify all programs of this kind by the date. Particularly, the plan seeks to encourage all educational establishments...
The Norwegian People’s Aid (NPC) will provide technical and financial support for the Vietnam National Mine Action Centre (VNMAC) to implement a project on building technical survey process in service of bomb and mine clearance. A memorandum of...
The PM has recently passed an overall project on “Shifting approach on poverty measurement from one-way direction to multi-dimension in the 2016-2020 period”. The fresh project mainly focuses on building poverty measurement criteria in the next five...
An annual 3-4% decrease in the poverty rate of ethnic groups is one of the specific targets of realizing Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) towards ethnic minorities associated with the post-2015 sustainable development goal, recently approved by...
