General News

  • An increase in the number of students in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong are posing challenges for the education sector as the demand for school facilities and teachers increases, said Nguyen Van Hoa, deputy director of the provincial...
    Wednesday, 4th May, 2016
  • The northern province of Quang Ninh on April 19 launched a campaign to support communes suffering extreme difficulties to rise up from poverty as part of its new-style rural area building program in 2016. At the launching ceremony, organizations and...
    Monday, 25th April, 2016
  • Nearly 200 collectives and individuals representing ethnic women who excel in economic development in the northwestern region will be honored at a conference in the central province of Nghe An in early May. The information was revealed by the...
    Monday, 25th April, 2016
  • As many as 19 publications will be given for free to ethnic minority groups and those living in extremely disadvantaged areas in 2016. The move aims to boost development in ethnic and disadvantaged areas across the nation, according to a decision...
    Monday, 25th April, 2016
  • Vietnam should issue more policies that aims to boost the transparency in power industry to draw more investment in power projects and the World Bank (WB) would support the process, Achim Fock, the WB Acting Country Director to Vietnam, said at a...
    Monday, 25th April, 2016
  • Vietnam’s Ministry of Health has set a target to reduce the rate of deaths caused by dangerous infectious diseases in the 2016-20 period. The target was announced by Nguyen Nam Lien, head of Ministry of Planning and Finance Department, at a...
    Monday, 25th April, 2016
  • Although the family doctor model has been implemented in many district and communal medical centres in Ho Chi Minh City, it is still an unpopular service among patients. Vo Thi Kim Oanh, head of a medical centre in Binh Hung Hoa A ward, Binh Tan...
    Monday, 25th April, 2016
  • Vietnam is expected to generalize the first-ever vaccine for the mosquito-borne disease dengue fever, after the completion of its experimental phase, according to the local drug administration. In order for the new vaccine to be circulated, the...
    Monday, 25th April, 2016
  • The Department of Health in Ho Chi Minh City declared the end of Zika virus outbreak at the ward level on April 21. Director of the municipal Preventive Health Centre Nguyen Tri Dung said on April 20 that after announcing the Zika outbreak at Thanh...
    Monday, 25th April, 2016
  • The Vietnamese Women Union and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDSC) co-held a groundbreaking ceremony on April 19 for a clean water system in Quy Hoa commune, northern Hoa Binh province. The project has a total investment of VND994...
    Monday, 25th April, 2016