The first meeting of the Experts’ Working Group (EWG) on Humanitarian Mine Actions, under the cooperative framework of the ASEAN Defense Ministers’ Meeting (ADMM+) Plus, will take place in Hanoi from June 17-20. The information was unveiled by...
The PM has signed a decision to reduce lending interest rates for policy credit programs at the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP). Accordingly, lending interest rates for poor households, guest workers, students and pupils are 7.2% per year (...
A program raising money to buy bicycles for children from disadvantaged backgrounds was launched in the central city of Danang on June 13. The AIA Life Insurance Vietnam Company granted 50 bicycles, each worth 1.7 million VND, to poor children in...
A three-day conference opened in Thai Nguyen province to discuss approaches and solutions to poverty reduction amongst ethnic minority groups in northern Vietnam. The conference, themed “Sustainable Development and Ethnic Minority Poverty Reduction...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health will conduct Japanese encephalitis B vaccination for children under three years old throughout the country in 2014, after an increasing number of encephalitis patients were reported. This was the first time the National...
Ho Chi Minh City has intensified various activities to target 99% of newborn babies of HIV-infected pregnant mothers with ARV treatment to be enjoyed preventive treatment. The treatment is designed to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission in 2014...
Ho Chi Minh City has intensified various activities to target 99% of newborn babies of HIV-infected pregnant mothers with ARV treatment to be enjoyed preventive treatment. The treatment is designed to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission in 2014...
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has emphasized the need to enhance education and communication work to raise public awareness of HIV/AIDS, drugs and prostitution prevention and control. This is extremely difficult work, especially with the State...
Vietnam’s pharmaceutical market is expected to have a compound annual growth rate of 15.4% in the next six years to reach a net worth of $8 billion by 2020 compared to the current $3.3 billion. The average drug expense per capita will rise to $40.8...
Vietnam will spend over VND4.35 trillion ($210 million) on upgrading irrigation systems in the Mekong Delta, the largest growing areas of rice, fisheries and fruits in the country, said the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. Of the...
