General News

  • Minister-Chairman of the Government Office Vu Duc Dam has affirmed that the Government will design supporting policies for the poor and people on low incomes when managing the price of electricity under market mechanism. Speaking at the monthly...
    Monday, 5th August, 2013
  • A number of Vietnamese agencies and non-government organizations are participating in the $5.25 million Market Access for the Rural Poor (MARP) project financed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The project, carried out in...
    Monday, 5th August, 2013
  • The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources has awarded the 2013 Vietnam Environmental Award to the Nung ethnic community in the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang for their solutions to protect, use rationally and develop natural...
    Monday, 5th August, 2013
  • Close to 4,000 local ethnic minority people in Lo Pang and Kon Thup communes in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai are using clean water and managing, by themselves, the water resource that came up from a JICA- funded project. Meanwhile,...
    Monday, 5th August, 2013
  • The Mekong Delta, the largest growing areas of rice, aquaculture and fruits in Vietnam, will carry out a $210 million irrigation project, $160 million will come from the World Bank on the form of official development assistance. The project targets...
    Monday, 5th August, 2013
  • The German Ministry of Economic Co-operation and Development has pledged to provide a EUR71.2 million loan to help Vietnam carry out development projects to become an industrialized country.  The ministry made the statement at a development...
    Monday, 5th August, 2013
  • The Ministry of Health (MoH) has asked the Ministry of Public Security to conduct an investigation into the post-vaccination deaths of three newborn babies in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Tri. In an urgent official letter Health Minister...
    Monday, 5th August, 2013
  • The Ministry of Health has uncovered many violations in the technical vaccination process, vaccine preservation and safety regulations after a recent inoculation inspection in 30 provinces and cities across Vietnam. The infractions included no...
    Monday, 5th August, 2013
  • The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will help Hanoi-based Bach Mai hospital and its two satellite hospitals promote radiology through telemedicine in a move to better serve local residents. This is part of the Minutes of Meeting on the...
    Monday, 5th August, 2013
  • Vietnam is estimated to have disbursed VND410 billion ($19.34 million) worth of state funds for health projects in the first seven months of this year, meeting 47.5% of the year’s target. The figure represented an on-year fall of 28.6%, the...
    Monday, 5th August, 2013