The 7th annual Scar of Life event has raised a fund of $302,400 for poor children with congenital heart disease in Vietnam. The entertainment and charity event, which was held on May 25 in Ho Chi Minh City by actress Ngo Thanh Van attracted the...
The statistics were released at a workshop to evaluate the initial results of the project, held yesterday in Bac Kan City by CARE, the Institute for Studies of Society, Economics and Environment (iSEE) and the Bac Kan Women’s Union. The project will...
A tourism development project being implemented in the northern mountainous provinces of Ha Giang and Cao Bang is expected to improve the livelihood of 10,000 poor people from ethnic minority groups. Apart from providing economic opportunities, the...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade last weekend held a conference in the northern city of Haiphong to continue the Voluntary Agreement (VA) and the operations of energy service companies (ESCOs), two energy-saving programs receiving support...
A number of Australian experts joined the Vietnam-Australia Energy Forum 2017 held on May 23 in Hanoi to provide their country’s expertise in power efficiency and renewable and clean energy supply. The event provided a platform for Australian...
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) will continue providing financial and technical support to a flood-resilient housing project in Vietnam by 2021, state media reported, citing UNDP Country Director in Vietnam Louise Chamberlain. The...
French development agency AFD and the European Union (EU) will lend Vietnam EUR87 million to combat climate change, heard a seminar on coastal erosion. The seminar discussing three scientific studies on coastal erosion in Ca Mau, Tien Giang and...
A workshop was recently held in Bologna, the capital city of the Emilia Romagna region in northern Italy, to increase opportunities for Vietnamese students to get access to the labor market. The event formed part of activities of the Voyage project...
Doctors from the Vietnam-Germany Hospital in Hanoi have successfully conducted the first heart surgery on a female patient infected with HIV in Vietnam, state media reported. The patient was hospitalized on May 4 and diagnosed with type-A aortic...
The Hanoi Department of Health has just announced the first case died of dengue fever from the beginning of this year, state newspapers reported. The 19-year-old patient was hospitalized at National Hospital for Tropical Diseases on May 14 with such...
