The northeastern province of Quang Ninh is determined to eradicate extreme poverty in all communes and hamlets by 2020. The province is expected to allocate about VND1.3 trillion to improve living conditions for poor people. The sum consists of more...
A festival themed “I believe I can” featuring the cultural value of different ethnic groups all over the country will be held in Hanoi on December 11 and 13. Organized the first time in 2015, the event becomes now an art festival dedicated to the...
Authorities in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Nam have approved a project on supervising biodiversity in special-use forest which will receive nearly $247,000 worth of non-refundable aid from the United States Agency for International...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a project on water management in the Mekong delta province of Ben Tre to use $285.7 million from Japan’s official development assistance (ODA). State media reported that the project will aim to...
Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has approved a financial mechanism to borrow $1.75 billion in loans from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for a power transmission project in the country. Accordingly, the Ministry of Finance will check...
Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City health officials have recently confirmed nine more cases of Zika virus, raising the city’s total to 94, state media reported. To date, 19 out of 24 rural and urban districts of Ho Chi Minh City have reported Zika patients...
A Save the Children project helped improve knowledge on maternal and newborn care for thousands of mothers and health workers in Yen Bai Dak Lak and Ca Mau provinces from mid 2012 to December 2016. The project helped build three newborn units for...
None of Vietnam’s provinces are spending as much as they should on preventive medicine, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam said on December 5 at a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the country’s preventive healthcare system. “The National...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked Ministry of Health to check the veracity of a newspaper report stating that Vietnam ranks the top in the world in antibiotic-resistant infections. The report, published in Vietnam Law newspaper on...
The Hanoi Department of Zoning and Architecture on December 1 announced the scale 1/500 zoning plan for the Duong river water treatment plant in Gia Lam District, which will contribute to providing more clean water for Hanoi and nearby provinces...
