The Central Highlands province of Lam Dong has eradicated hunger and curbed illegal deforestation for cultivation as a result of local efforts to settle ethnic minority people through building infrastructure, contracting them to take care of forest...
The government of South Korea has agreed to fund $3.4 million for a $9.4-billion project on improving occupational safety in Vietnam from September 2013 to September 2016. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Training Center (OSHTC) under...
Foreign non-governmental organization (NGO)-funded projects have made significant contributions to the socio-economic development of the central province of Thua Thien-Hue. The assessment was given during an October 31 conference on the mobilization...
Authorities in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi are calling on foreign investors to build international hospitals to better serve local people and ease the severe overload at public hospitals, said a senior official. Chairman of the municipal People’...
Vietnamese health authorities will set up five groups to inspect the operations of private health centers nationwide, Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien said at an urgent meeting in Hanoi Oct 27. The move came after high public concerns and...
Vietnam has for the first time succeeded in applying nanotechnology to produce Nano Curcumin—a substance that can help cure cancer, according to the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology. The breakthrough is a result of a two-year research...
More than 30,000 poor households in the northern midland province of Phu Tho have benefited from preferential loans to build nearly 60,000 water supply and sanitation facilities. Since the beginning of this year, the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies...
The government of Luxembourg has pledged to provide the central region of Vietnam with EUR8 million for a project on dealing with climate change impacts in the 2013-2017 period, said Hoang Ngoc Khanh, head of the provincial People’s Committee. The...
Representatives from Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos are gathering at a conference in the Lao province of Khammouane to discuss ways to promote green growth towards sustainable development. Addressing the opening ceremony, Lao National Academy of Social...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) disbursed an estimated VND48 billion ($2.13 million) worth of state funding for its projects in October, a decrease of 2.13% from September, the government’s General Statistics Office (GSO) said....
