Viet Nam now has nearly 1,200 eye doctors working at hospitals in 211 districts, accounting for 30% of total number of districts in the country, according to the Viet Nam National Institute of Ophthalmology. Due to the shortage of ophthalmologists,...
The Vietnam Fatherland Front in Ho Chi Minh City on April 10th held a conference to summaries the mobilization “For the poor” in 2011. According to reports, the City’s mobilization boards for the poor had actively launched a series of mobilizations...
A bomb exploded on April 10 during construction work taking place on a section of National Highway 1A in Nghi Yen commune, Nghi Loc district, in the central province of Nghe An. The blast caused long and deep cracks on the highway, which seriously...
The U.S. government will provide $3.5 million in aid to help defuse bomb, and land mines left from the war in Vietnam this year, state media reported, citing the U.S. embassy as saying. The funding aims to clean up unexploded ordnance (UXO), raise...
A charity music program will be held in Hanoi on April 14 to raise funds for needy Vietnamese people, including the disabled orphans.“One Heart - One World”, the 9th of its kind, will be co-organized by the Association in Support of Vietnamese...
As many as 12,000 poor people in 10 provinces and cities nationwide will be provided with free medical check-ups and treatment following an agreement between the Vietnam Red Cross (VRC) and Glaxosmithkline Pte Ltd Co. (GSK). Under the...
1,162 children in Cao Bang Province, for the first time, received free check-ups for congenital heart diseases in a two-day humanitarian program to provide heart surgeries, “Heart for children”, in late March. The program was held by Viettel...
Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh has called for more efforts to quicken the implementation of a rapid and sustainable poverty elimination program in the poorest districts. The Deputy PM asked relevant agencies to support local...
The Vietnamese government spent roughly VND360 billion ($17.14 million) on implementing social security policies in the first three months of this year, the Ministry of Finance said. Of the sum, VND272.7 billion was used to support electricity...
Vietnam is in need of more support from the international community to cope with the consequences of post-war bombs and mines, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan said. Nhan made the statement at an exchange in the capital city of Hanoi on April...
