As many as 2,331 communes in 49 cities and provinces nationwide will benefit from the Government’s poverty reduction program (known as Program 135) in 2014 and 2015. The figure sees two communes less than the list specifying extremely poor, border...
The southern provinces of Bac Lieu, Soc Trang and Tra Vinh on April 10 held get-togethers for Khmer people ahead of their traditional Chol Chnam Thmay (New Year) festival, which falls annually in mid-April. In Soc Trang, home to about 400,000 Khmer...
The Chol Chnam Thmay festival to mark New Year of the Khmer ethnic people living in the south will be celebrated for the first time in Hanoi as part of the Vietnam’s Ethnic Cultural Day from April 15 to 20. The festival, to include all the usual...
Bill Gates plans to set up a $50-million charity fund aimed at improving health services in Vietnam. The online Thoi Bao Kinh Te Vietnam newspaper cited a well-known journalist as saying that the billionaire has started carrying out a charity...
The World Bank (WB) will definitely say no to any loans asked by the Vietnamese government for the preparations for the 18th Asian Games (ASIAD), which Vietnam plans to host in 2019, Victoria Kwakwa, WB’s country director for Vietnam, said at a...
The health ministry plans to inspect private health clinics and drugstores in five major cities this year after many violations were uncovered during last year’s inspections. In 2013, 197 private health clinics and 66 private drugstores were...
Doctors at Hanoi-based Central Pediatrics Hospital have urged the Ministry of Health to announce a measles outbreak after the disease spread to 59 out of Vietnam’s 63 cities and provinces and claimed 25 lives, but the ministry has refused. Up to 3,...
Canada’s Triple Eye Infrastructure Corp has got a license to set up a joint venture with Vietnam’s Dai An JSC Co. to build an international-standard hospital at an estimated cost of $225 million in the northern province of Hai Duong. The joint...
Ho Chi Minh City will soon develop 30 lakes in suburban areas and hundreds of others in inner-city areas to hold rainwater in a move to effectively control severe floods. Do Tan Long, head of the Irrigation Management Office of the HCM City Steering...
Save the Mekong Coalition, an environmental group, has sent a letter to government leaders of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, calling for the cancellation of hydropower dams on the Lower Mekong mainstream. In its letter, the group expressed...
