The World Bank (WB) will provide an additional $78.03 million for expanding the project titled Livestock Competitiveness and Food Safety Project (LIFSAP) in Vietnam, said Victoria Kwakwa, vice president of WB in Asia-Pacific. The expanded project...
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has taken several measures to help the Vietnamese government better use official development assistance (ODA) for public-private partnership (PPP) projects. JICA will share specific mechanisms to...
The EU has granted EUR90,000 to support Vietnamese people affected by drought and salinization in the Mekong Delta and the Central Highlands, state media reported. The grant is part of the sum of EUR178,000 that the European Fund for Urgent Disaster...
Deutsche Gesellschaft fürInternationaleZusammenarbeit (GIZ) or the German Agency for International Cooperation is continuing its financial support worth total EUR7 million to wind power development in Vietnam until 2018. The funding will be...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health has called for increased efforts to provide effective and safe vaccines under the National Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) to all children in the country, state media reported. The announcement was made at a...
The General Department of Preventive Medicine and the World Health Organization (WHO) in Vietnam co-organized a press seminar on the prevention of Zika virus disease and summer diseases, with the participation of reporters from 14 central and...
Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi, with over ten millions of population, has only seven outlets which sells safe food, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. The seven outlets are offering farm produce from four providers...
Authorities in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi have launched three new hotlines that will be used to gather public information about food safety violations, the online newspaper VnExpress said in a report. The three hotlines connect to the...
All such imported food products are subject to a state inspection for safety, conducted by inspection agencies designated by Vietnam’s Ministry of Health (MOH), according to its Circular 52 issued on Dec 21 last year. Any request for this state...
At least 300 people die and missing in natural disasters annually in Vietnam which is ranked one of five hardest-hit countries by climate change, state media reported, citing the UN Women at a three-day conference in Hanoi beginning May 16....
