Vietnamese Deputy Minister of National Defense Nguyen Chi Vinh and U.S. majority clerk, Senate State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee Tim Reiser exchanged views on bilateral cooperation in overcoming consequences of bombs, mines...
The Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange (AO)/Dioxin (VAVA) sent an open letter on April 9 calling for support to an AO victim’s lawsuit against 26 U.S. chemical companies that produced the chemical toxins sprayed by the U.S. army in the...
Participants at a workshop held today in this central city discussed ways to perfect a new tool that identifies poor and near-poor households in Viet Nam for the 2016-20 period. Nguyen Viet Cuong from the World Bank said the tool should define poor...
A new private museum featuring traditional Muong ethnic culture has opened in the northern province of Hoa Binh. This is the second private museum in the province and the 24th in the country. Owned by culturist Bui Thanh Binh, the museum hosts...
The poverty rate among Khmer ethnic households in the Mekong Delta region was cut down to 17% by the end of 2014 thanks to efforts by authorized agencies in improving their livelihoods and ensuring social welfares. Vice Standing Chairman of the...
The World Health Organization (WHO) is committed to standing side by side with the Vietnamese government in ensuring food safety, Jeffery Kobza, acting chief representative of the WHO in Vietnam, has said. The WHO official made the commitment at a...
Vietnamese school girls and female students get around 150,000 abortion cases every year, according to the Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Population and Family Planning. The figure accounts for half of the total abortion cases in the country...
Vietnamese doctors have successfully conducted a non-relative umbilical cord blood transplant for a 28-year patient with acute leukemia this week, marking it the first case so far, the state-run Vietnam News Agency reported, citing the National...
Vietnam’s health authorities have intensified their efforts to combat and prevent avian influenza A/H5N6 from spreading to humans, the state-run Vietnam News newspaper reported on April 8. The Ministry of Health (MoH) has asked authorities in Nghe...
Ho Chi Minh City will build the second Oncology Hospital in District 9, at a total cost of nearly VND5.9 trillion ($274 million) which is sourced from the State budget and other legal capital resources. The 1,000 patient-bed hospital will be...
