Oxfam and ActionAid in Vietnam have completed two research reports on communal-level social and economic factors contributing to “bright spots” in poverty reduction in Vietnam, the two organizations said in a press release on June 17 in Hanoi. The...
The Prime Minister has signed a decision (36/2013/QD-TTg) providing rice to students of day-boarding schools in remote provinces. Under the decision, students, mostly from ethnic minority groups, will receive around 15 kilograms per month per person...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) and the International Labor Organization (ILO) launched on June 17 a project to strengthen the performance of the local social insurance system to protect workers after retirement....
More than 13,000 people in remote mountainous region in Vietnam’s northwestern provinces of Lai Chau and Dien Bien have benefited from a power project funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The project, connecting the two provinces into...
More than 100 scientists and experts in dengue fever from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), including Vietnam, have gathered at a meting in Hanoi to share experience in coping with the disease. Addressing the event, Vietnamese...
Signs of violating the Competition Law are emerging in Vietnam’s pharmaceutical market, said Nguyen Phuong Nam, deputy director general of the Vietnam Competition Authority (VCA) under the Ministry of Industry and Trade. At a conference in Hanoi on...
Nearly 80 medical staff from seven northern provinces including Bac Kan, Ha Giang, Hung Yen and Yen Bai yesterday finished a four-day training course on dealing with cases of mushroom poisoning in the mountainous northern province of Ha Giang. The...
Emissions of carbon dioxide from oil and gas operations in Vietnam are expected to rise to 42 million tons in 2015, a 3.6-fold increase from 2011, as shown in a latest report by the Vietnam Petroleum Institute. The institute released the report on...
Vietnam found 157 production facilities violating the regulations on environmental protection in 2012, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. Environmental protection agencies inspected 429 industrial parks and clusters as...
Kindergartens and primary schools in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi this year are seeing an increase in the number of applicants, mostly due to unmanaged migration into the city. Compared to the 2012-2013 school year, in the 2013-2014 school year,...
