Efforts to curb with HIV/AIDS in Vietnam may be affected after foreign organizations announced that they will reduce their financial support to the country in 2013, the Ministry of Health said. International organizations including the U.S....
Microorganisms were blamed for the cause of a recent mass poisoning at ForeMart Garment Company in the northern province of Hung Yen's An Thi District, according to the Ministry of Health's Administration for Food Safety and Hygiene. The poisoning...
Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi has launched a program to encourage local residents to limit the use of nylon bags to protect the environment, state media reported. The program, which will last till the end of this year, aims to encourage locals to...
The Vietnamese government should design a clearer national action plan on green growth, a representative from the World Bank (WB) said at a recent conference in Hanoi. The WB representative made the appeal at the seminar on July 12 to kick-start a...
The first national assessment report on coastal erosion in Vietnam was released at a meeting in Hanoi July 17 with the support from the Coordinating Body on the Seas of East Asia (COBSEA), state media reported. The report is expected to provide...
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment will propose the Vietnamese National Assembly gradually increase spending on environmental protection to at least 2% of the state budget by 2015 from the current 1%, state media reported. The...
There are at this time several inadequacies in the current textbooks and education programs for basic education due to the disparity in the quality of teaching staff between one school and another. The National Assembly's Committee for Culture...
School curricula and textbooks needed to be geared more towards practical knowledge rather than theory, said experts at a recent meeting held by the National Assembly Committee for Culture, Education, Youth and Children. Professor Dao Trong Thi, the...
13 US instructors from the Humanitarian Mine Action, Pacific Command and US Army have instructed 64 Vietnamese trainees in a 12-day training course on safely dealing with UXOs and give emergency aid to people injured by post-war UXOs. Careful and...
Da Nang Border Guard Command’s troops have raised nearly VND 130 million for 20 poor households in the locality since the beginning of this year. The money was used to buy cattle and production tools, such as motorbikes, mobile canteens, sewing...
