The Japanese Business Association in Ho Chi Minh City (JBAH) has donated VND800 million ($41,900) to three hospitals in the city, the Thoi bao Kinh te Saigon Online newspaper reported. The money, which was collected during the 14th charity bazaar...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Health held a conference Tuesday to discuss measures to enhance effectiveness of official development assistance (ODA)-funded projects, the Gia Dinh & Xa Hoi newspaper reported Mar. 31. The ministry will continue...
The Hanoi Club for Parents of Autistic Children will join hands with O2TV television channel to organize a meeting and run on April 11 to help autistic children, the Quan Doi Nhan Dan newspaper reported April 2. The program is aimed at improving...
Dengue fever affected 7,300 cases in Vietnam, killing three people in the first three months of this year, down 28% from a year earlier, said the Ministry of Health’s Preventive Health and Environment Department. The MoH was quoted by the state-run...
Vietnam’s Mekong Delta province of An Giang has started building a clean water supply plant worth VND21 billion ($1.1 million) in Tinh Bien district, the Vietnam News Agency said April 2. Once operational in 2011, the plant with a daily capacity of...
Vietnam lost nearly 1.8 million cubic meters of clean water per day last year, accounting for 30% of the total daily water supply, said experts at a conference in the central city of Danang last week. Although the water loss rate decreased by 5%...
Vietnam saved more than 500,000 kWh of electricity during the “Earth Hour 2010”, the state-run Vietnam News Agency cited the National Electricity Dispatching Center as saying Mar. 29. The result came after a mass switch off between 8:30 am and 9:30...
Phu An Thanh Joint Stock Co. late last week started building a wastewater treatment plant worth VND26 billion ($1.36 million) in Vietnam’s southern province of Long An. Located in Phu An Thanh Industrial Park (IP), the facility has a capacity of...
Ho Chi Minh City Waste Recycling Fund under the municipal Department of Natural Resources and Environment will hold a waste recycling festival 2010 in Le Van Tam Park on April 4. The fund will organize three contests of orators, fashion design and...
Vietnamese and foreign scientists have discovered a new lizard species in the central highlands province of Kon Tum, the fifth of its kind in Vietnam since 2004. The new species, which lives in tropical evergreen forests at heights of more than 1,...
