The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Ministry of Planning and Investment Mar 31 co-held a conference on building Vietnam’s socio-economic strategy for 2011-2020. The UNDP has announced the results of its studies on socio-economic...
Credit Suisse Bank will arrange $200 million in loans for the state-owned Vietnam National Coal-Mineral Industries Group (Vinacomin), the Dau tu newspaper reported April 2. Seven international financial institutions have signed agreements to provide...
Lien Viet Commercial Joint Stock Bank (LienVietBank) Mar. 28 donated VND15 billion ($785,300) to help build a cancer hospital in Vietnam’s central city of Danang. Of the sum, VND5 billion came from LienVietBank and the rest from Him Lam Joint Stock...
Doctors of Singaporean ParkwayHealth Group will provide free-of-charge check-ups to Vietnamese cancer patients at its representative office in Hanoi on April 4, the Ha noi moi newspaper reported Mar. 29. As a leading healthcare group in Singapore,...
Ho Chi Minh City plans to invest VND1.5 trillion ($80.8 million) to build a 1,000-sickbed cancer hospital to reduce the workload at its tumor hospital. The money will be sourced from the city budget and g-bonds, the Thanh nien newspaper reported....
The Vietnam Administration of HIV/AIDS Control (VAAC) under the Ministry of Health said that 1,628 new cases of HIV infection were detected across the country in Mar, up 27.5% against Feb. In March, 533 AIDS developers and 225 deaths of the disease...
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...
