The Dong Nai provincial authorities on May 7 convened an urgent meeting to clarify information provided by a local newspaper that the Dong Nai River is being filled with dioxin-contaminated soil and rocks taken from an area near Bien Hoa Airport....
Around 6,000 young physicians joined a national campaign to offer free medical examinations and medicine to around 1,000 poor people in all 63 provinces and cities of Vietnam starting on May 17 to mark Uncle Ho’s birthday anniversary. The news was...
The northern province of Thai Nguyen has carried out a project supporting the Mong ethnic minority group in production development and building infrastructure in a bid to raise the ethnic residents’ livelihoods. The province’s Project 2037 has...
Chairman of the National Assembly’s Council of Ethnic Affairs Ksor Phuoc suggested building policies that encourage self-development among ethnic groups at the council’s 11th plenary session in Hanoi on May 15. The event, running through May 19,...
It is hot, although it is still very early in the morning, and a group of ethnic minority women are already at work, picking tender tea leaves on a mountainside in the northern province of Lai Chau. The Dao Do (Red Dao) women of Tam Duong district...
Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi is opening the $15-million Giao Thong Hospital (Transport Hospital) on May 15, The Dien Dan Doanh Nghiep newspaper reported on May 10. The project to upgrade the Giao Thong Hospital, which started in November 2013,...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will scale up loans for Vietnam in the years to come, ADB Director Tomoyuki Kimura said at a meeting with Vice Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) Nguyen Thi Hong in Hanoi on May 13. ADB will merge loans from...
The U.S.-Vietnam Clean Energy Conference opened on April 14 in Ho Chi Minh City to promote green energy sustainability in Vietnam, state media reported. The conference, part of the continuing celebration of the 20-year anniversary of the...
Thanks to the national tuberculosis preventive program, a man in HCM City's Tan Phu District who was diagnosed with TB is not afraid he will transmit the disease to his infant son. The man, who asked not to be named, had exclaimed earlier to doctors...
More than 10 million Vietnamese, or about 11% of the country’s population, are said to carry the thalassemia gene, an inherited disorder that affects the production of hemoglobin, posing serious concerns about their quality of life, according to...
