General News

  • The Vietnamese Ministry of Health has completed a draft decree on hiking hospital fees to provide better healthcare treatment for patients, said Minister Nguyen Quoc Trieu. Some of types of medical treatments at central and district-level hospitals...
    Monday, 11th January, 2010
  • The Vietnamese Ministry of Health has dispatched ten teams to inspect hygiene and safety of Tet food products in 30 cities and provinces nationwide from Jan. 1 to Feb. 14, state media reported. The teams will focus on inspection on wholesale markets...
    Monday, 11th January, 2010
  • Ho Chi Minh City is seeking the approval of the Ministry of Planning and Investment to add a $250,000 water supply project of Saigon Water Corp. (Sawaco) to the list of ODA-funded projects this year. If approved, the project will be implemented...
    Monday, 11th January, 2010
  • The Government of Vietnam has approved the Vietnam Bank of Social Policy to lend VND5 trillion ($270.6 million) to poor students this year. This year is the third consecutive year the program on soft credit loans for poor students has been carried...
    Monday, 11th January, 2010
  • The government of French has pledged to grant $144 million to Hanoi University of Science and Technology to train lecturers, the government of Vietnam said on its website. The French side will also send lecturers to give lectures and undertake...
    Monday, 11th January, 2010
  • Vietnam will spend $2.59 billion to boost primary education in an effort to complete the national universalization of primary education in 2015, state media reported January 07. The funding part of the government’s National Program of Education For...
    Monday, 11th January, 2010
  • Vietnam is forecast to earn $3 billion-$3.2 billion from exporting six million tons of rice this year, up 16% in value from in 2009, the Nong Nghiep Vietnam newspaper reported Jan. 6, citing Chairman of the Vietnam Food Association (VFA). Chairman...
    Monday, 11th January, 2010
  • The northern province of Bac Ninh Dec. 29 detected two wartime mines in the Cau dyke, Dap Cau ward, Bac Ninh city. The mines, M72 produced by USSR, weighing 7.5 kg each, are under the management of local police and the city’s Military Steering...
    Wednesday, 6th January, 2010
  • About 8,000 women have been examined and treated for gynecological diseases free of charge this year under a medical program that targets poor women in remote areas, said Nguyen Thi Ngoc Phuong, deputy head of Ho Chi Minh City Sponsoring Association...
    Wednesday, 6th January, 2010
  • The United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the Vietnamese Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) and the Institute of Science co-held a conference in Hanoi on Dec. 28 to discuss ways to reduce poverty between 2011 and 2020....
    Wednesday, 6th January, 2010