The health department of Vietnam’s central highlands province of Lam Dong began the construction of a pediatric hospital worth more than VND245 billion ($12.86 million) from g-bond June 29. Covering six hectares in Da Lat city, the 150-sickbed...
Up to 60,000 Vietnamese children aged less than 14 suffer from cerebral palsy, a health expert said at a thee-day training course on treating and diagnosing the disease in Ho Chi Minh City starting June 30. Cerebral palsy was mainly caused by birth...
Luu Nguye Construction Co., Ltd and Saigon Ast Trading Service and Medical Equipment Co., Ltd, began the construction of a general hospital in Ho Chi Minh City July 1, with total investment of VND83 billion ($4.36 million). Located in Tan Phu...
Up to 53 million Vietnamese people or 62% of the total population have got health insurance policies so far, a rise of 7% over previous years, Minister of Health Nguyen Quoc Trieu said at a meeting in Hanoi July 1. Of the total, 14.7 million are the...
New Zealand is seeking to assist Vietnam in developing renewable energy, improving power generation, maintaining clean water supply, and cleaning polluted waterways to keep up with rapid industrial development, said New Zealand Trade Commissioner...
The Singapore Government will continue to help Vietnam train human resources to improve the country’s manpower quality in the context of global integration, said a Singaporean official.“The government has assigned Singaporean-based RPT to cooperate...
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, Vietnam’s biggest bilateral donor of official development assistance, has called for the revision of Japanese ODA charter to boost technology exports to spur its economic growth. The proposal came after...
More than one million ethnic minority people in five Vietnam’s central highlands provinces have been provided with medical checkups and treatment for 6 recent years, which is part of a healthcare project. Under the project, 3,000 local health...
Teaching Khmer language in parallel with Vietnamese in pagodas in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang is developing strongly, especially in summer holidays. The province is now home to 65 pagodas of Khmer ethnic people, providing free of charge...
Vietnam’s southern province of Binh Phuoc spent VND1.1 billion to support students in ethnic areas in 2009-2010 academic year, the Cong an Nhan dan newspaper reported June 28. The province revealed that it has appointed 388 students at ethnic areas...
