Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has called for a thorough review of poverty reduction policies in the northwestern region, home to over 30 ethnic groups. He made the suggestion during a working session held with the Ministry of Labour,...
Vietnam did not annually spend $3.5 billion on feeding the apparatus in charge of poverty reduction, confirmed Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Nguyen Trong Dam. He raised objection against the information recently published by...
The Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs and the Steering Committee for the Northwestern Region have sought to maximize their coordination in ethnic and religious affairs in 2014. They will also coordinate with each other to implement a strategy on...
International experts have proposes measures at a meeting in Hanoi on Mar 4 to help Vietnam raise the coverage of medical insurance, which is currently at about 70% of the population. Of the experts, Keizo Takemi, president of the Asian Forum of...
The Vietnamese and Finnish governments on March 6 signed a EUR11 million agreement for the second phase of their joint innovation partnership program (IPP) which aims to enhance the capacity of Vietnam’s information technology system, allowing the...
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has signed a deal with the Vietnamese government to fund JPY7.5 billion ($73 million) for a hydropower project in the central province of Binh Thuan. The amount is aimed at raising capacity of the...
The United Nations will provide a non-refundable aid of US$1.1 million for Vietnam to implement its national target program on building new-style rural areas. To this effect, a project was signed between representatives from the Ministry of...
Vaccine-resistant mutation of H5N1 bird flu virus strain has been confirmed in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh while vaccinated fowls fell sick in central Vietnam. Ngo Duc Thanh, director of Tra Vinh animal health department, said the kinds of...
Vietnam’s doctors successfully had a multi-organ transplant operation on March 3, marking the first case of this kind so far. The operation which took 13 hours was carried out by a group of more than 150 medical staffs from the Military Medical...
Authorities in Vietnam’s southern metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City have asked the World Bank (WB) to lend it $450 million to a project to improve water and environment for 1.2 million inhabitants in Nhieu Loc-Thi Nghe canal. The funding is expected to...
