Just 45% of Vietnam’s rural residents have gained access to clean water in line with the Ministry of Health (MoH)’s standards, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said in its latest report. The rate of households in rural areas having...
About 40 people including 15 children in Dai Tam Commune, My Xuyen District, the southern province of Soc Trang, suffered food poisoning after eating bread on Dec 25. The bread was bought from Nhu Gia Bakery in Thanh Phu Commune. All the victims...
Vietnam has reported 132 food poisoning cases this year, affecting 4,700 people including 41 deaths, the General Statistics Office said. In November, the country recorded six cases with 123 affected locals in five provinces of Phu Yen, Gia Lai,...
The Northern Union for Planning and Investigating Water Resources has found an underground reservoir in Vietnam’s northern province of Ha Giang’s Meo Vac district, said a local official. With the discovery, more than 8,750 locals in Meo Vac town and...
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has helped raise the area of mangrove forests to more than 22,000 hectares in Vietnam’s northern region in the 2006-2010 period, state media reported Dec 29. The figure was...
Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) joined hands with authorities in the central highlands province of Kon Tum handed over 100 houses to ethnic minorities in 3 border districts on Dec 25. Of the total, locals in Ngoc Hoi district got 50 houses...
The education budget will be 2.9 per cent higher this year at VND5 trillion ($256 million), according to the Ministry of Education and Training. Nguyen Van Ngu, head of the Ministry's Finance and Planning Department, said it would fund 100% of...
In the two years since the implementation of Decision 167-2008/QD-TTg by the Prime Minister on assisting poor families with housing, the central province of Quang Binh has supported the construction of 3,200 houses for the poor. Each house has been...
With the aim of providing charity, the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee and the Vietnam Red Cross have cooperated with hospitals in District 1 and the Ho Chi Minh City’s Preventive Health Centre to provide free medical check-ups and treatment to...
With the aim of providing charity, the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee and the Vietnam Red Cross have cooperated with hospitals in District 1 and the Ho Chi Minh City’s Preventive Health Centre to provide free medical check-ups and treatment to...
