An exhibition by English photographer Phlip Jones Griffiths displayed the effects of Agent Orange in Vietnam at the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City on November 22. The exhibition featured 47 large, black-and-white documentary photos...
Vietnam’s Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap has approved a VND186.7 billion ($9.57 million) project to build seven health agencies in the 2010-2014 period. The project will be built on an area of 2,879 square meters in Cao Lanh city, the Thanh Nien...
The Vietnamese Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang’s Health Department has began building a general hospital worth VND137 billion ($7.03 million) of g-bonds, the Nhan Dan newspaper reported Nov 12. The 150-sickbed hospital covering 35,000 square...
Dengue fever affected more than 29,100 people in provinces and cities across Vietnam in Oct, bringing the total patients to 105,000 the first ten months of this year, rising 21% from a year earlier, state media reported, citing an official of the...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has clinched an agreement to finance an additional $902.85 million for the Mong Duong 1 coal-fired power project in Vietnam’s northern province of Quang Ninh. Signatories were ADB Country Director Ayumi Konoshi and...
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will continue to assist Vietnam in boosting agriculture and rural development, said FAO Chief Representative in Vietnam, Yuriko Shoji. The representative made the pledge at the International...
Authorities of Hanoi have approved a VND154 billion ($7.3 million) project, funded by the World Bank, to improve competitiveness of animal husbandry and food safety in Vietnam’s capital city, state media reported. Of the sum, around VND122.8 billion...
The Japanese government pledged over JPY100 billion ($1.22 billion) in official development assistance (ODA) for Vietnam in the first half of 2010 fiscal year, equivalent to the figure of 2009. The Japanese ODA to Vietnam in the second half will far...
Since the 2006-2007 school year, the project on primary education for disadvantaged children by the Ministry of Education and Training has opened over 18700 classes to teaching Vietnamese for 267800 students from ethnic minority groups. The...
Vietnam’s central highlands province of Dak Lak has eliminated all inadequate housing for ethnic minority families so far. In a program to support poor ethnic minority families’ housing alone, districts, towns and cities of the province have...
