Chairman of the National Assembly (NA)’s Ethnic Affairs Council Ha Ngoc Chien has called on the UN Development Program (UNDP) to support Vietnam in organizing training courses for deputies to the NA and all-level People’s Councils in ethnic minority...
The Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang plans to start work soon on 24 water supply projects in ethnic minority-inhabited areas, particularly where local communities are affected by the recent intrusion of salt water. Total investment for the...
The government of Canada will finance CAD15 million ($11.6 million) to carry out initiatives and technologies on reducing greenhouse gas emissions among small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Vietnam by 2020. Canadian Minister Stephane Dion...
Vietnam has put several high-risk locations on high alert following reports of the Zika virus spreading across Singapore and Malaysia, state media reported. The Ministry of Health will use advanced screening technology to diagnose cases of the Zika...
Travel companies in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City will request insurers to include the Zika disease in travel insurance contracts for their tourists to Singapore and Malaysia as the disease threatens to spread from the two neighboring countries. Tour...
At least 20,000 people in northern Vietnam have benefited from a project on fighting and preventing HIV/AIDS that receives financial and technical support from the U.S. embassy in Hanoi, according to the Vietnam Television, the country’s national...
The government of Vietnam should raise taxes on cigarettes to lower smoking rate which was about 22.5% in 2015 in a bid to curb smoking-related diseases that kill average 40,000 people in the country per year, the Ministry of Health has reported,...
Authorities in Vietnam’s southern metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City have said that the tap water leakage rate in the city remains high, hitting around 28%, causing a loss worth more than $130,000 per day. Statistics by Saigon Water Corporation (Sawaco...
A group of environmentalists from the non-governmental organization GreenViet Biodiversity Conservation Center won a scholarship package from American real estate billionaire Beth Molasky to travel to the U.S. to learn measures to preserve the...
Malaysia’s authorities have arrested a group of 12 people, including eight Vietnamese nationals, for wild animal trafficking allegations, seizing hundreds of parts of endangered species following raids on two transnational wildlife trafficking rings...
