General News

  • Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s largest city, is prioritizing land fund solutions, capital allocation, and investment attraction to construct an additional 4,500 classrooms by 2025, aiming to achieve a ratio of 300 classrooms per 10,000 school-aged...
    Monday, 18th March, 2024
  • The Project Management Board of the Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has announced the winning contractor for a VND180.05 billion ($7.3 million) tender package aimed at constructing an education sector database and implementing e...
    Monday, 18th March, 2024
  • Over the past decade, nearly 500,000 hectares of land have been cleared of landmines and explosive remnants, the Vietnam National Mine Action Center (VNMAC) announced during a ceremony commemorating the tenth anniversary and the presentation of the...
    Monday, 11th March, 2024
  • An extremely dangerous bomb weighing about 226 kg that remained intact was successfully deactivated in the northern province of Hung Yen on March 6. The bomb, about 160cm in length and about 30cm in diameter, was discovered by a fisherman while he...
    Monday, 11th March, 2024
  • Vietnam’s northern province of Bac Giang expects to have five more communes recognized as new-style rural areas, 11 more advanced new-style rural communes, and five new model new-style rural communes in 2024. Meanwhile, 12 villages in extremely...
    Monday, 11th March, 2024
  • Vietnam’s Can Tho City has got 31 of its 36 communes recognized as advanced new-style rural communes under a national program. Under the program for building new-style rural areas, all 36 must be recognized as new-style rural communes, one level...
    Monday, 11th March, 2024
  • Vietnamese Minister of Finance Ho Duc Phoc held a working session with Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Yamada Takio on March 4 to discuss strategies to enhance the implementation of next-generation official development assistance (ODA) programs. The...
    Monday, 11th March, 2024
  • The disbursed foreign non-governmental organization aid to Vietnam reached over $228.6 million in 2023, marking a $4.9 million increase compared to 2022, focusing on areas and regions that Vietnam needs, local media reported. The Committee for...
    Monday, 11th March, 2024
  • Dr. Nguyen Khanh Phuong, head of the Strategy and Health Policy Institute at the Vietnamese Ministry of Health, has advocated for the establishment of a rare drug policy aimed at improving access to essential medications, local media reported. The...
    Monday, 11th March, 2024
  • Vietnam is set to upgrade six hospitals to international standards, aiming to curb the trend of Vietnamese seeking medical treatment overseas while also attracting foreign patients, local media reported. In an initiative outlined in the healthcare...
    Monday, 11th March, 2024