Vietnamese health authorities have warned of rising number of malaria infections from African guest workers as 90 Vietnamese laborers have contracted with the disease in the past three months after returning from several African countries. The...
Vietnam has raised warning on the rising risk of infection and emerging diseases recurrence due to climate change and abnormal weather conditions in recent years, said the Department of Preventive Medicine and Environment under the Ministry of...
Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi will build 39 plants for common wastewater treatment in urban centers from now until 2030 in a move to ease environmental pollution. The wastewater treatment plants, part the city’s newly-approved water drainage...
Mangkhut, the sixth tropical storm hitting Vietnam this year, caused a total loss of VND326 billion ($15.37 million) to several northern and central provinces after making landfall on Aug 7. Among storm-hit localities, the central province of Thanh...
Ho Chi Minh City will shut down 24 garbage collection points by Sept as they are seriously polluting the living environment of local residents, vice chairman of the municipal People’s Committee of City Nguyen Huu Tin said at a recent meeting. The...
Southern provinces are grappling with a dire shortage in teachers as the new school year approaches. According to the HCM City Department of Education and Training, which has been recruiting since March, only 1,900 new teachers have entered its pay-...
The Japan-Vietnam Friendship Association organized a special program in Tokyo on August 10 in support of Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange/dioxin. The Musashino Cultural House’s conference hall was fully packed with participants, and many had to...
Economic-National Defense Unit 5 of Military Zone 4 has offered 161 cows and 100 pigs, valued at VND 1 billion, which have been handed over to needy families in 5 communes in Muong Lat district, Thanh Hoa province. The money came from the State’s...
The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has asked the World Bank (WB) to maintain its official development assistance (ODA) loans for poverty reduction and social welfare in Vietnam in the years to come. Minister Dinh Tien Dung made the call at a reception...
Japan’s International Manpower Development Organization (IM Japan) has earmarked JPY15 million ($155,000) to provide a vocational training program for poor youths in Vietnam. Under an agreement signed by the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids Social...
