General News

  • The French Development Agency (AFD) has committed to add EUR20 million in loan for Vietnam’s support program to respond to climate change (SP-RCC), the French Embassy to Hanoi said in a statement May 14. Earlier, the Japanese government funded JPY10...
    Monday, 17th May, 2010
  • International Obstetrics Hospital JSC started to build an international obstetrics hospital worth VND857 billion ($45 million) in the central province of Nghe An’s Vinh city May 15. This is the first hospital of its kind in the province, the state-...
    Monday, 17th May, 2010
  • Saigon Medical Investment JSC of Vietnam and Sokimex Co. of Cambodia kicked off the construction of Cho Ray - Phnom Penh General Hospital May 15. Covering a site of 50,000 sq.m in Meanchey district, ten km from Phnom Penh, the hospital has two five-...
    Monday, 17th May, 2010
  • Atlantic Philanthropies (AP), a U.S. non-governmental organization, has granted $8.5 million to a health project in the Vietnam’s central province of Thua Thien-Hue, state media reported. The project costing $11.89 million is slated for completion...
    Monday, 17th May, 2010
  • Vietnam Medical Product Import-Export JSC and Vietnam Fair and Advertisement Company (Vietfair) launched the 17th international exhibition on medical and pharmaceutical products (Vietnam Medi-Pharm 2010) in Hanoi May 12. More than 200 domestic and...
    Monday, 17th May, 2010
  • Ho Chi Minh City Society of Reproductive Medicine (HOSREM) and Tu Du Hospital held the 10th Vietnam-France-Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive Health (VFAPCRH) from May 12 to 18. As many as 1,600 domestic and foreign experts and doctors from...
    Monday, 17th May, 2010
  • The World Health Organization (WHO) has pledged to fund $4.2 million to help Vietnam to produce vaccines against A/H5N1, A/H1N1 and seasonal flu diseases by using embryonated eggs, the Lao Dong newspaper reported. The Institute of Vaccines and...
    Monday, 17th May, 2010
  • The Vietnam National Chemical Group (Vinachem) and Tay Ninh provincial authorities have signed a deal to build a Sorbitol (sugar alcohol) plant that costs $22 million. Sorbitol is used in various industrial fields, including food processing,...
    Monday, 17th May, 2010
  • Vietnam’s health sector has to date attracted 70 foreign direct investment (FDI) projects totaling $908 million, the Ministry of Planning and Investment’s Foreign Investment Agency said. In the first four months, the Southeast Asian country’s total...
    Monday, 17th May, 2010
  • The Mekong Delta Province of Soc Trang plans to spend VND60 billion ($3.16 million) this year to bring clean water to more than 20,000 poor Khmer households. To Ngoc Tuan, deputy head of the provincial Agriculture and Rural Development Department,...
    Monday, 17th May, 2010