Ho Chi Minh City has successfully implemented its poverty reduction program for the 2009-15 period, heard a conference held in the city on March 21. A report presented at the event stated that by the end of 2013, the city’s poor rate was 0.8%, a...
The Southwest Region Steering Committee this year will coordinate with ministries, central agencies and localities to step up popularisation work among ethnic minority people and religious followers in the region. The task was launched by the...
Vietnam has affirmed its policy of ensuring, protecting and promoting the legitimate rights of ethnic minority groups in all aspects, based on the principle of equality and solidarity for the common progress of all ethnic communities. Speaking at a...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) held a conference in Hanoi on March 18 to assess the pace of a rural infrastructure project in northern mountainous provinces in 2013. Reports at the conference...
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has positively contributed to humanitarian activities in Vietnam since it established its representative office in the country in 1991. Chairman of the Vietnam Red Cross (...
The number of storms and tropical low pressures the East Sea this year to drop to nine or ten, lower than the annual average, according to Vietnam’s National Center for Hydro-meteorological Forecast. The center is also forecasting the number of...
The Vietnamese prime minister has approved a project to upgrade more than 70 traditional medicine hospitals across the country from now till 2020, as part of efforts to reduce the overloading at public hospitals. The project aims to deliver a...
Germany’s B. Braun Melsungen AG, one of the world’s top manufacturers and suppliers of health and pharmaceutical products, plans to set up a kidney dialysis center in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi. The center will be a foundation for B. Braun to...
It is necessary to ensure a sufficiency of medicine for preventing and treating tuberculosis (TB) at any cost, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has said. The Deputy PM made the remark at a conference in Hanoi on March 21 to promote the...
A national-level meeting will be held in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau on March 21 as part of a program recognizing 2014 World Water Day. Organized by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, the Ministry of Industry and...
