Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi is likely to double the fees of 819 health services at all state-owned hospitals from August 1, 2013 under a proposal of the municipal People’s Committee sent to the People’s Council. The new fees will be 70% of the...
Vietnam has attracted $82.4 million in three foreign direct investment (FDI) projects on healthcare and social work in the first half of this year, down 1.67% from a year earlier, as shown in statistics by the Ministry of Planning and Investment....
The State Bank of Vietnam has assigned the Military Bank (MBB) to arrange loans from the World Bank (WB) for a technical support project for a program on rural water supply and environmental sanitation in the Red River Delta by 2017. The program...
Ho Chi Minh City, the most populous city of Vietnam, may be among Southeast Asian cities most vulnerable to global warming, the World Bank (WB) said in its latest scientific report. The report titled “Turn Down the Heat: Climate Extremes, Regional...
The Vietnamese government spends an estimated $1 billion on projects to cope with negative impacts of climate change each year, said official from the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI). Deputy Director of the Vietnam Institute of Meteorology...
Vietnam has lost about VND1.17 trillion ($55.7 million) from natural disasters in the first six months of this year, versus nearly VND1.7 trillion in the same period last year, said the government’s General Statistics Office (GSO). Natural...
The Hanoi Department of Natural Resources and Environment has proposed the municipal People’s Committee reclaim series of idle land lots to build state-owned preschools to ease the current overload. The lots include two in Hai Ba Trung district, two...
Vietnam’s first electric textbook made its debut under the name of Classbook in Hanoi on June 26. The 8-inch touch-screen device contains the full content of traditional textbooks from grade 1 to 12, plus a number of reference books in accordance...
As many as 270 Vietnamese scholars were granted scholarships on the Ford Foundation International Fellowship Programme (IFP) over the past 12 years, according to the Center for Education Exchange with Viet Nam (CEEVN). These outstanding academics,...
An unexploded bomb found in the Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park in the north-central province of Quang Binh. An unexploded bomb some 2.5 meters long was found Tuesday in a national park in the north-central province of Quang Binh, online newspaper...
