An international conference aimed at raising awareness of ensuring the rights to human health and development opened in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi on Oct. 26. The four-day event was co-held by the Party Central Committee’s Commission for...
Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Mitsuo Sakaba has recently presented medical equipment worth $75,000 from the Japanese government to a group of volunteer doctors of the Vietnam Red Cross. The equipment included ultrasound machines, cardiac pacemakers...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health has praised non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for making practical contributions to public healthcare in Vietnam. Health Minister Nguyen Quoc Trieu gave the praise at the ministry’s first-ever meeting with...
The European Union (EU) and the U.K. non-governmental organization (NGO) of Marie Stopes International granted EUR2.45 million ($3.6 million) for a project to help improve reproductive health for poor rural communities in Vietnam and Cambodia. The...
Seventy two students and a teacher of a secondary school in Vietnam’s northern port city of Haiphong were hospitalized between Oct 27-28 because of gas choking. The city health authorities confirmed that the students fainted en mass at classes in...
Duy Xuyen District Water Drainage and Supply Enterprise kicked off the construction a VND4 billion ($224,000) clean water supply system in the central province of Quang Nam’s Nam Phuoc Township yesterday, Oct. 29. Water for Life Fund of the...
South Korea’s Ministry of Environment and Vietnam’s southern province of Tien Giang authorities have recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to support an environmental sanitation project in My Tho City. The project, which costs $133.25...
The government of Germany will fund EUR18 million ($26.5 million) for environmental projects in Vietnam, the German Embassy in Hanoi said. German Ambassador to Vietnam, Rolf Schulze, notified the aid to Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Planning and...
Vietnam’s central city of Danang and Japan’s Kitakyushu University will work on a project to clean dioxin-contaminated land at Danang Airport, the Quan Doi Nhan Dan newspaper reported Thursday.Under the project, a dioxin-contaminated land...
Viglacera Corp. started building a VND23 billion ($1.3 million) wastewater treatment station at Yen Phong industrial park (IP) in the northern province of Bac Ninh yesterday, October 28. This is the second wastewater treatment station at the IPs of...
