The central Eye Hospital announced that nearly 40,000 people agreed to give their corneas. The news was released at a ceremony to honor good deep of cornea donors and the fifth anniversary of establishment of the Eye Bank on November 28 in Hanoi....
The Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development have called for close supervision to detect cases of avian influenza in humans and poultry throughout the country. Chemicals are being sprayed to sterilize areas deemed at...
Vietnam needs to issue policies to encourage private-run companies to get involved in water supply and drainage projects in an effort to improve quality of tap water in urban areas, said the World Bank. The government should have transparent...
Authorities in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi have decided to build a water treatment plant using the input from the Red River to meet the local demand. Designed to have the capacity of 300,000 cubic meters of water daily, the Red River Water Plant...
The northern province Nam Dinh is participating in the Vietnam Forests and Deltas (VFD) Program which is tailored to help accelerate Vietnam’s transition to a climate change resilient, low carbon, and sustainable society. The project comprises three...
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and international partners have agreed to restart the International Support Group on Natural Resources and Environment (ISGE) in a meeting in Hanoi. Accordingly, a larger scale program will be kicked...
The Hungarian government will double the number of its scholarships for Vietnamese students to 100 in the near future, said President Janos Ader, who is on an official visit to the Southeast Asian nation. Mr. Ader noted at the first conference of...
A total of 161 Vietnamese citizens will start their post-graduate studies in Australia from early next year under the Australian government’s scholarship program. They include 117 recipients of Australia Awards Scholarships, of whom two are the...
Over the past years, the Quang Binh provincial Association of Victims of Agent Orange (AO) has exerted great efforts in calling on support for AO victims; notably the building of the fund for the victims worth nearly VND18 billion. Since 2009, the...
The German Ministry of Foreign Affairs has funded a number of projects to help the central province of Thua Thien-Hue disarm unexploded ordnances (UXOs) left over from the war. In March 2014, the ministry pledged EUR257,911 to implement a project...
