Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien urged the General Department of Population and Family Planning to improve its services at the local level while attending a conference in Hanoi on January 20. The official hailed the sector’s 2014 efforts to...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved the allocation of VND3 trillion ($140 million) from the state budget in 2015 for climate change projects. The program include 16 unfinished projects under the Support Program to Respond to...
The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) organised a workshop in Hanoi on January 21 to formally launch a project to facilitate the development of green energy technologies. The initiative, worth over $4 million, will be implemented at both...
Education plays a crucial role in enabling impoverished children and communities to partake in economic development as well as maintaining long-term development, a recent study of childhood poverty reveals. "The study results indicate obvious...
Vietnam has attracted $825.5 million of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the education and training sector as of December 2014, accounting for just 0.33% of the country’s total FDI. The country has licensed 204 FDI projects in the sector during...
Over the past 5 years, apart from disseminating the struggle for justice for Agent Orange (AO) victims, Danang city Association of Victims of AO has encouraged care for the victims. A diverse range of programs have been held to raise funds for...
Sappers in the northernmost province of Ha Giang on January 12 deactivated a bomb weighing 45.2kg in Nguyen Trai ward, Ha Giang city. The US-produced bomb, coded AN-M30, contained 25kg of TNT explosive. It was discovered during the clearing of a...
The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho plans to help over 3,000 households rise out of poverty in 2015, bringing the local poverty rate from 2.84% in 2014 to 1.84% this year, the lowest in the region. To achieve this goal, Director of the municipal...
The cultural space of gongs of ethnic minorities in the Truong Son mountain range has been recognized as an important part of human culture, especially for the H’re people in central Quang Ngai province. Preserving and promoting the everlasting...
The Department of Culture, Sports, and Tourism of the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak has been enacting a series of measures to preserve and promote volumes of epics of the Ede people, which are currently in danger of disappearing from the...
