Toyota Vietnam granted 132 scholarships worth VND480 million ($26,900) in total to Vietnamese outstanding students on Oct 15, state media reported Friday. The Lao Dong newspaper reported that the scholarships are part of the company’s scholarship...
More than 200 policy makers and leaders of educational organizations from Vietnam and Britain gathered in Hanoi on Oct. 16 for a meeting on tertiary education. The meeting, co-organized by the Ministry of Education and Training and the British...
The rate of infant deaths is much higher than that caused by traffic accidents, but the problem has yet to receive the attention it deserves, said Ha Thanh Binh, an official in charge of health and nutrition issues for the Save the Children...
Around 20,000 poor residents in Ho Chi Minh City will be able to access clean water next year under a 249,000-euro (US$366,000) project funded by Dutch organization Water for Life Fund (WFL). According to an agreement recently signed between WFL and...
The two countries signed an agreement to the effect on Tuesday.The signatories were Minister of Planning and Investment Cao Viet Sinh and director general of Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency Anders Nordstrom. The Swedish support...
The US$13.2 million program, titled “Strengthening the comprehensive capacity of the inspectorate system,” includes 10 sub-projects involving select ministries and provinces. The Vietnamese government will contribute about $1.4 million to the...
All four men, Ngo Dinh Giang, Le Van Khoi, Duong Van Dinh, and Mai Van Thong from neighboring provinces, were still alive, said Le Minh Chuan, deputy general director of the Vietnam National Coal-Mineral Industries Group (Vinacomin), which owns the...
The two girls, who shared no internal organs other than breastbone and pericardium, are improving after the operation, said Dr. Nguyen Thanh Liem, the hospital’s director. They will remain under close observation due to their congenital heart...
The two deaths reported by the HCMC Health Department were a 13-year-old from the Mekong Delta province of Long An and a 49-year-old Australian. The child, who was overweight and also had kidney failure, died from a lung infection caused by the H1N1...
A rapid response team from the Commission's humanitarian aid department (ECHO) is also being sent to Vietnam to assess needs in the stricken area. The most recent reports from Vietnam are that at least 347,000 homes have been destroyed or damaged...
