Engineers from the Military Command in Haiphong City, in co-ordination with the relevant units and the local authority, successfully removed four bombs to a safe place to defuse them. This information was revealed by Lt Col Dang Ba Nhinh, chief of...
Vietnam aims to increase the number of ethic minority deputies at the 14th National Assembly (NA) so that the assembly has appropriate representation from all social strata. Ethnic minorities have been encouraged to participate in the NA...
The Japanese government has signed agreements to provide a total of $204 million in official development assistance (ODA) for three development projects in Vietnam on the occasion of the official visit of Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida to the...
Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and Vietnamese Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha on May 5 signed an diploma note over scholarship project for personnel development. The signing ceremony was under the witness of Vietnamese...
Japan’s Supporting Industrial Development Organization in Vietnam has granted JPY1.5 million ($1.4 million) to Vietnam’s Central Disaster Prevention Support Fund with an aim to help the Southeast Asian country cope with decade-worst El Nino....
Dozens of delegates from non-governmental organizations in ASEAN members have gathered in Hanoi for a two-day workshop on making policies and sharing experience on gender-based violence prevention. The event with an aim towards an ASEAN without...
Japan is providing Vietnam with new loans totaling more than JPY85 billion ($781 million) for the development of port and road infrastructure in the rapidly growing Asian nation. The loans are for the development of a major deep-seaport at Lach...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health (MoH) has included a number of new vaccines in the National Expanded Program on Immunization as part of efforts to improve the efficiency of disease prevention, state media reported. According to the ministry, in the...
A 2-month-old baby in Hanoi died after getting a shot of the controversial 5-in-1 vaccine Quinvaxem, state media reported. Hoang Duc Hanh, deputy director of Hanoi’s health department, suggested that the baby died of anaphylactic shock, a serious...
No case suspected of carrying Zika virus has been detected in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), since a South Korean woman was found with the virus on her return home from the city, state media reported. The municipal Preventive Medicine Centre...
