Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a census project on 53 ethnic minorities, not including the major group of Kinh people, to improve managerial work on ethnic issues, the government said on its website. Authorities will collect...
The Vietnamese prime minister has proposed the president allow the State Bank of Vietnam to sign two loan agreements worth $53.2 million for the Nhon-Hanoi Station railway in the capital city of Hanoi. Of the sum, $49 million is expected to come...
As many as 10,000 doses of oral cholera vaccine manufactured by the Company for Vaccine and Biological Production No1 (VABIOTECH) under the Ministry of Health (MoH) will be exported to the Philippines, according to the company’s Director Do Tuan Dat...
Vietnam’s health sector will spread the antiretroviral (ARV) treatment to cover early-stage HIV carriers, raising the number of the benefited to 105,000 in 2015. The news was unveiled at a workshop in Ho Chi Minh City on December 26. The Ministry of...
Foreign patients paid an estimated $1 billion for treatments services at medical facilities in Vietnam last year, the Thoi Bao Kinh Te Saigon newspaper reported on Jan 6, citing the Ministry of Health. Most medical treatments chosen by foreign...
A 21-month child from the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang died of hand-foot-mouth disease on January 5, several days after she had been hospitalized. Doctor Tran Van De, Director of Can Tho Paediatrics Hospital, which provided treatment for...
The saltwater intrusion has had an adverse impact on rice farming and aquaculture in coastal areas of Vietnam’s southernmost province of Ca Mau, said provincial Department of Natural Resources and Environment. A report released by the department...
Businesses will have to "seriously apply" environmentally-friendly technologies if the Lien Chieu Industrial Zone (IZ) is to reduce its Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions by five% by 2020, an expert cautioned. But the large investments involved were...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has decided to remove the university entrance exams starting in the 2015-2016 academic year to save costs and time as proposed by senior experts and local people. There will be only one national...
The movement “Tet for the poor and Agent Orange (AO) victims” launched by the Vietnam Red Cross (VRC) in 1999 has brought about practical results and become a beautiful characteristic in social lifestyle as well as becoming a traditional activity...
