The Vietnamese government has asked the ministries of Health, Public Security, Agriculture and Rural Development to impose higher fines on food safety violations to ensure local people’s health, state media reported Jan 5. Deputy Prime Minister...
Hanh Phuc International Women & Children Hospital, the first Singapore standard facility in Vietnam, was put into operation in the southern province of Binh Duong Jan 3 after three-year construction. The 260-sickbed hospital is managed by...
Just 10% of 72,000 Vietnamese kidney patients in the final stages get blood purification, Bach Mai Hospital’s statistics showed. The rest 90% died because they can not afford high expenses for the blood purification, doctors said, adding that the...
The Vietnamese government spent over VND14.03 trillion ($719.49 million) on a poverty reduction program for ethnic minorities and mountainous communes in 2006-2010 or Program 135 Phase II, the Nhan Dan newspaper reported Jan 4. The information was...
More than VND6.3 trillion ($323.07 million) have been raised via the charity program for poor people entitled “Noi Vong Tay Lon” (Joining the Great Fold) which took place in Hanoi on Dec 31. The program was co-held by the Central Committee of the...
The Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee has asked the Party committees, governments and the Fatherland Front committees of the city’s 24 districts, and relevant agencies to hold activities that support the needy people during the Lunar New Year 2011 or...
The Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) Central Committee announced at a meeting on January 6 that its local chapters have raised more than VND64 billion to help build 7,000 houses for women in difficult circumstances. Last year, a campaign to build...
Authorities in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi have set up a fund for local Agent Orange victims in an effort to help them lead a normal life with basic living conditions. The fund aims to call for different financial sources domestically and abroad...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Health and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed a $1.8 million agreement on popularization of books on maternal and newborn healthcare in Hanoi on Dec 27. The three-year project which will be kicked off...
Dengue fever is estimated to have attacked 119,100 Vietnamese people this year, claiming 89 lives, showed the General Statistics Office (GSO), giving no on-year comparative figures. Among regions, the central highlands have reported the highest...
