The Netherlands is calling for applications for its Holland Scholarship, which is meant for international students from outside the European Economic Area (EEA). Scholarships for students who want to do their bachelor’s and master’s in the...
Delegations from the Steering Committee for southwest region on February 4 visited and presented gifts to poor households in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho and Ben Tre province. The gift packages came on the occasion on the forthcoming traditional...
Vietnam will make efforts to maintain sustainable poverty reduction as improving people’s livelihood is one of key measures to keep the country’s economic growth and ensuring good social welfare for all walks of life, especially disadvantaged people...
Central provinces have implemented a program to help students from ethnic minority-populated and disadvantaged areas by granting them automatic admission into universities, colleges and vocational schools, as well as free tuition from the Government...
Vietnam’s Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh has launched a $10.2 million project to support local small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with the majority of the finance coming from the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development. The...
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is working on a special technical support program to facilitate Vietnamese fishermen to make inroads into high-grade seafood markets of Japan and other countries, a Japanese official has said. At a...
An outbreak of the H7N9 avian influenza virus spreading in China has posed great risk to Vietnam, especially bordering cities and provinces in the southern region, said Tran Dac Phu, director of the Preventive Medicine Department under the Ministry...
Water for drinking and sanitation in 37 villages across northern and central Vietnam is seriously contaminated and is the main cause behind many cancer cases, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. “The most common problem...
The Preventive Medicine Department under the Ministry of Health has urged local parents to bring their children aged above one to hospitals to get vaccinated against chicken pox. The call was made as 10 cases have occurred every week since Jan 1. Dr...
Vietnam will take measures to tighten control over food safety this year, including imposing strict fines for violators as well as publicizing their names in order to ensure costumers’ right to access to safe food, said Deputy Minister of Health...
