From May 1, poor households across the country will enjoy a higher loan amount of up to VND50 million ($2,380) instead of the VND30 million (nearly $1,430) issued thus far. According to the new Decision No. 34 issued by Nguyen Van Binh, Governor of...
More than 300 gong artisans from ethnic minority groups across the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong will join a gong culture festival in Lac Duong district on April 29-30. Nguyen Vu Hoang, director of the provincial Culture Centre, said the...
The La Hu ethnic people in the northern province of Lai Chau have recently seen their lives change positively thanks to assistance from the local border guards. The group has a population of more than 6,000, living on high mountain slopes in the...
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a private investment arm of the World Bank (WB), on April 28 said that it will work with a Vietnamese partner to ease micro companies’ access to financial services. Under a recently signed agreement, IFC...
While measles has yet to be brought under control across the country, hand-foot and mouth disease (HFMD) and chickenpox are expected to break out in the coming weeks. Medical experts warn the number of patients contracting these two diseases is...
Vietnam has recorded 17,410 people infected with hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) since the beginning of 2014 in 62 out of the total 63 cities and provinces nationwide, said the Ministry of Health. The number of HFMD patients dropped by 20% on year,...
The Ministry of Health and local health authority in the northern province of Thai Binh organized a vaccination week starting from April 21 in response to the World Immunization Week 2014 promoted by World Health Organization. WHO’s Western Pacific...
The Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long will cooperate with investors from the Republic of Korea (RoK) in building and upgrading its water facilities. To this effect, a memorandum of understanding (MoU) was inked between the two sides in Vinh Long...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a water supply project in the 2014-2019 period borrowing $230 million from the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The project costing a total of $254 million would focus on building a system using...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a planning on treating solid waste in Hanoi until 2030, that costs nearly VND11 trillion ($524 million), under which between 80% and 100% of solid waste in urban and rural areas will be...
