State agencies managing hunger eradication and poverty reduction programs cost Vietnam about VND75.6 trillion ($3.6 billion) per year, or 63% of the money used for such programs annually. Each year, Vietnam spends an estimated VND120 trillion ($5.7...
The health sector will launch a project encouraging young doctors to volunteer to work in the country’s 62 poverty-stricken districts in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai. This is part of activities to celebrate the Vietnamese Doctors’...
Most ethnic minority students have returned to school following the prolonged Tet holiday in the provinces of Dien Bien, Yen Bai and Khanh Hoa. This was due to the efforts of school management boards and local authorities. In the northern...
The European Union (EU) has agreed to provide EUR3 million to help Vietnam and neighbouring countries fight illegal logging and promote a sustainable forest initiative. At the launch ceremony for three EU-funded projects on February 18, Franz Jessen...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) has launched a project costing $2 million with a grant from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to improve social welfare for local people. The project on Reform of Social...
Vietnam has been chosen for a project against infectious diseases globally in a credit pack worth $40 million launched by the U.S. government. The project which is within the Global Health Security Agenda 2014 will enable Vietnam to combat with...
Vietnam has produced and successfully tested the use of anti-diarrhea vaccine for children, becoming the 4th country in the world to make Rotavirus vaccine. The Rotavin-M1 vaccine was licensed to be offered in the market by the Ministry of Health (...
The Japanese Embassy in Hanoi on Feb 20 signed a deal to grant nearly $325,000 to three healthcare and education projects in Vietnam, state media reported on Feb 21. Of the sum, $120,700 will go to a health project in Hanoi and the remainder to two...
An influx of saline water will flow 40-60km inland into the Mekong Delta’s coastal provinces next month, according to the Southern Irrigation Science Institute. The intrusion will cause a shortage of fresh water for households to use during the dry...
A recent study has revealed that the economic benefits of wastewater collection and treatment systems far surpass their investment costs, radio The Voice of Vietnam (VOV) reported. The German-Vietnamese Development Cooperation’s Wastewater...
