The National Assembly has adopted a resolution on sustainable poverty reduction until 2020, targeting the reduction of the ratio of the country's poor households to below 5% and that of poor districts to less than 30% by 2015. In the 2016-2020...
A delegation from the Vietnamese National Assembly’s Committee for Ethnic Affairs led by its chairman Ksor Phuoc is on a two-day visit to Russia to strengthen bilateral ties in the field of charge. During their June 26-27 stay in Moscow, the...
The European Institute for Cooperation and Development (IECD) and the Social Development Training Center (SDTC) of Vietnam have launched a project to support small entrepreneurs in Ho Chi Minh City. Entrepreneurs will receive training in the basics...
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission in Vietnam has announced its funding opportunities through its Vietnam Disabilities Annual Program Statement (APS) with an estimated $20 million budget for the next five years. The...
Medical stations in Hanoi have so far provided prenatal and newborn screening services for over 23,600 pregnant women and 11,600 infants in a bid to reduce the rate of children born with congenital defects. A major centre for this purpose was...
All provinces and cities are expected to achieve key indicators related to leprosy elimination by 2015, according to the agency that provides technical guidance to hospitals for the national leprosy prevention program. There are four main criteria:...
All passengers who arrive in Vietnam on flights from the Middle East will have to fill out health declaration forms, starting on July 1, as part of a campaign to stem the spread of a global respiratory disease. Tran Dac Phu, chief of the Ministry of...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked 61 cities and provinces nationwide to raise the use of Methadone in drug addition treatment in 2014-2015 to reduce bad impacts on the society. The localities are asked to provide Methadone treatment...
The northern province of Bac Ninh will require its polluting guild villages to adopt adequate waste treatment methods and facilities or move the trade to industrial zones. Polluting enterprises will not only be subject to administrative punishments...
More than 200 households are continuing to struggle with water shortages in a Ghenh Rang Ward fishing village in central coastal Binh Dinh Province. The shortage has extended into a second month and began when three local wells ran out of water,...
