A ceremony to inaugurate a building for Agent Orange (AO)/Dioxin victims was held in Thach That district of Hanoi on July 17. The two-storey accommodation was constructed at a cost of nearly 9.5 billion VND ($441,860 and spans a total floor area of...
The Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange/dioxin (VAVA) received $10,000 donated by Maggie Brooks, a Swiss national living in Costa Rica, and her friends at a ceremony in Hanoi on July 18th. Maggie Brooks has been working to raise fund for...
Implementing of the Prime Minister’s Decision No 22 on giving housing support for revolutionary contributors, so far, the northern province of Quang Ninh has built houses for 2,475 revolutionary contributors and repaired 2,309 for others, accounting...
The Khmer community in Luong Nghia commune in the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang is having a better life, with clean water and hygienic toilet facilities thanks to an aid project funded by the Australia Government. A group of Australia...
The Australian embassy confirmed that Vietnam will receive official development assistance worth AUD90 million ($67 million) with around AUD60 million in indirect bilateral aid in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2015-2016. The information was released during...
Vietnam’s government has recently decided to allocate VND3.1 trillion ($150 million) funded via the International Development Association under the World Bank for university education development in the 2015-2016 period. The Ministry of Planning and...
The Department of Preventive Medicine under the Ministry of Health yesterday said that through investigation, outbreaks of dengue fever has remained in the two southern provinces of Binh Duong and Dong Nai. Through a report by heath inspectors in...
Major hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s biggest economic hub, have successfully transferred techniques to provincial hospitals after implementing a program two years a program on the subject. Six major hospitals in HCM City including The...
Vietnam’s central province of Quang Nam has been closely monitoring patients with symptoms of acute respiratory failure to prevent the transmission of the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV). Health authorities have...
The Hanoi People’s Committee recently appealed for support from local State agencies and organizations in fighting HIV/AIDS and assisting children affected directly or indirectly by HIV, a pressing issue currently facing the capital city. Data shows...
