The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism has been preparing an annual report on the country’s tourism in 2013 with the assistance from the EU-funded Environmentally and Socially Responsible Tourism Capacity Development (ESRT) Project. The...
Vietnam has kick-started a $250 million program using financial support from the World Bank (WB) to develop seven cities in the northern mountainous region – where there is the highest concentration of extreme poverty in the country. The Results-...
According to the Son La provincial Department of Labor, War-Invalids and Social Affairs, about 12,500 children in the province are at risk of HIV/AIDS infection. The province has now found 156 children infected with the disease. More than 150 HIV/...
The Central Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion has opened Vietnam’s first free stem cell bank which gathers and stores donations of umbilical cords for the purposes of treating blood conditions and diseases. Doctor Nguyen Anh Tri, head of...
Vietnam must have action plans against the abuse of salt in eating habit as an effort to limit the rate of cardiac diseases which cause 33% of deaths in the country per year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a press release on Sept 29....
As much as 5.42% of the total population, suffers from diabetes, according to a study conducted with more than 11,000 respondents between the age of 30-69 as part of the 2012 National Diabetes Prevention Project. The non-communicable disease is...
Mental health is crucial, since it is directly linked to the quality of life, the happiness of families, social security and the prosperity of the nation, Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan has said. In a meeting to commemorate World Mental Health Day (...
Vietnam’s customs authorities have seized as many as 300 kilograms of ivory worth VND18 billion ($857,000) so far this year, as part of their efforts to combat wildlife trafficking. On Sept 22 customs authorities at Tan Son Nhat International...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has okayed the use of VND3 trillion ($143 million) official development assistance (ODA) from the Support Program to Respond to Climate Change (SP-RCC) for climate change response projects in 2015. The sum...
Authors who have their work published in school textbooks have never received royalties from the Education Publishing House, which is the only authorized textbook publisher in Vietnam. Textbook publishing is a lucrative business with millions of...
