The People’s Committee of the southern province of Vinh Long announced that the province would spend VND 42.5 billion building safe water infrastructure in rural communes. Accordingly, 18 safe water projects will be built, upgraded and expanded in...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Health’s Health Examination and Treatment Department has proposed to invite foreign health experts to define the cause of strange skin disease in the central province of Quang Ngai. The province has recorded 106 people...
The Vietnamese National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology will make A/H5N1 flu vaccine for humans in 2013, Nguyen Tran Hien, head of the institute, confirmed. The institute is conducting the third stage of the vaccine testing in humans, which is...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Transport has proposed to the government to provide additional $205 million for transport infrastructure development project using loans from the World Bank and non-refundable loans from the Australian government. With the...
The World Bank (WB) plans to fund $290 million for Vietnam’s southern metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City to conduct Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project in an effort to ease overloaded traffic, state media reported on Feb 7. Representatives of the WB and the...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed an agreement to provide Vietnam with $120.5 million to assist the country in improving its power transmission network, the Dau Tu newspaper reported on Feb 10. The agreement was clinched between the...
Vietnam Television (VTV) will produce programs in ethnic languages, with the first edition to air on VTV5 on March 1. The television project on ethnic languages in 2011-2015 aims to raise public awareness of Party guidelines and State policies on...
The Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs on February 9 hosted a conference in the central province of Thua Thien – Hue to review ethnic work in 2011 and launch tasks for 2012. Last year, the lives of ethnic minorities continued to be improved with...
The Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Education and Training and the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs has promulgated a circular on supporting ethnic minority children to study. Accordingly, children from three to five years old in...
The three pillars of reform identified by the Vietnamese Government are certainly appropriate, and if successful, they will put Vietnam on a path to sustainable economic growth. Vice President of the Asian Development Bank in East Asia, Southeast...
