Vietravel Company, in coordination with the Ho Chi Minh City Sponsoring Association for Poor Patients and Trung Vuong Hospital, will provide free eye surgeries to 200 poor patients across the country from November 24-26. The program will be carried...
The UAE embassy in Vietnam has started a project for building ten houses for the poor and needy in the capital city of Hanoi. The charity is funded by the Red Crescent Authority (RCA) of the UAE and is implemented in association with the Islamic...
Vietnam has built 24,539 houses out of total 77,311 houses for the poor nationwide so far this year, the Quan Doi Nhan Dan newspaper reported Nov 22. Of the sum, as many as 5,514 houses have been handed over to the needy people. In Aug alone,...
Australian and Vietnamese experts will under take collaborative research on economic integration and poverty reduction via Australian Government science grants, which are provided through the Australian International Science Linkages-Humanities,...
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...
