The Vietnamese government kicked off a reproductive healthcare project that costs $3.1 million funded by the European Council (EC) in Hue city on April 5. The project aims to improve reproductive health services for poor people in Vietnam and...
Ho Chi Minh City reported nearly 700 hand-foot-mouth patients in the first quarter, up 57% from a year earlier, state media reported on April 9, citing Nguyen Dac Tho, deputy head of the city’s Preventive Medicine Department. The disease killed one...
Between 1.5% and 3% of Vietnamese children suffers from hereditary birth defects, state media reported April 9, citing the Ministry of Health. The rate of birth defects will be much lower if pregnant women are diagnosed and pre-natal screened soon,...
Officials of the World Health Organization and the UNICEF said they are willing to share experience with Vietnam in treating and taking care of mental disorder people, women, children and disabled people, the sate-run Vietnam News Agency said. A...
The government of South Korea has provided a technical assistance to a project to help improve capabilities of Vietnamese officials in managing food safety and hygiene. The Vietnamese Ministry of Health’s Department of Food Safety and Hygiene and...
Mai Dong Water Company of Vietnam and Vientiane City Water Supply Company have signed a deal to construct a water supply plant that costs $5 million in Vientiane. The Vietnamese firm will contribute 80% of the total investment to the project, the...
Authorities of Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi have approved a plan to spend nearly VND80 billion ($4.18 million) to prevent landslides, the An Ninh Thu Do newspaper reported. The city plans to build an 4-kilometer embankment along Day River’s...
Mekong Delta provinces of Vietnam have called on the government to allocate VND22 billion ($12.2 million) to mitigate impacts of drought and salt water intrusion, the state-run Vietnam News Agency said April 5. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural...
The Global Environment Fund has granted $4.5 million to a four-year project to help Vietnam cleanse pesticides, belonging to persistent organic pollutants (POPs), in the environment, state media reported April 6. The Vietnam Environment...
The Vietnamese capital of Hanoi will spend more than VND8.7 trillion ($455.5 million) on a project to cleanse Nhue river and strengthen the land use management in the river basin from now up to 2015. The money will be sourced from the state budget,...
