The Vietnamese government will not cut investments in anti-poverty activities despite economic uncertainties in the years to come, said Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs Pham Thi Hai Chuyen. At a forum on sustainable poverty reduction...
About 5,000 ethnic teachers have received financial support and soft-skill training as part of a five-year national programme towards quality improvement for high school teachers and specialised vocational school teachers. At a meeting yesterday to...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and representatives of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have signed a Cooperation Framework for the 2012-2016 period. According to the Cooperation Framework released...
Vietnam will start construction of the Ben Luc-Long Thanh expressway, funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in December, the project management unit said. The 58-kilometer Ben Luc-Long...
Emergency medical service satisfies only 1% of the demand from local people in Ho Chi Minh City, the most populous city of Vietnam, said a doctor from the city-based Trung Vuong Emergency Hospital. People complain that the urgent medical services...
Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh has agreed in principle to allow the Ministry of Health to continue increasing medical fees at state-owned hospitals nationwide after the last price hike last August. Under the roadmap for a hospital fee...
More than 270 businesses from 30 countries and territories worldwide will attend an international exhibition on water supply and drainage, water filter technologies and wastewater treatment (Vietwater 2013) in Ho Chi Minh City on Oct 16-18. The...
Climate change is estimated to cost Vietnam 10% to 11% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), threatening the country’s sustainable development, Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai said at a meeting in Hanoi. At the third national forum on...
A number of Japanese companies have joined a conference on industrial wastewater treatment in Vietnam’s southern province of Dong Nai to share experience in the field on Oct 15. At the meeting held by the Kansai Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry...
The U.S. Mission in Vietnam is looking for qualified candidates to nominate for the 2014 Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) Program, which will place two Vietnamese teaching assistants in Vietnamese language courses at U.S....
