Total pledged official development assistance (ODA) by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), a Japanese government agency, to Vietnam in the fiscal year (FY) of 2016 was over JPY187.1 billion ($1.7 billion), the Tien Phong newspaper...
Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Health has instructed general hospitals to improve emergency aid treatment in an aim to reduce overcrowding at Cho Ray Hospital. These so-called first-category hospitals are health facilities with highly professional...
Hanoi Department of Health is calling on the city’s health agencies and the Preventive Medicine Center to better prepare to fight rise of summer diseases, especially dengue fever, following a rising number of cases reported in the first quarter of...
HCM City authorities are struggling to reach the target of having wastewater treatment systems at all export processing zones, industrial parks and industrial complexes by 2020. Nguyen Thi Thanh My, deputy director of the city’s Department of...
Vietnamese Ba Hai Company Limited received a warning letter dated March 21, 2017 from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over its fish and fishery products examined at an importer located in America. The FDA inspected the Crystal Cove...
Ensuring water security is becoming an urgent matter of Vietnam in the context that climate change is causing bad impact on all aspects of the life from socio-economic affairs to the environment and ecosystem, heard a conference in Hanoi on April 19...
Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has ordered the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to urgently review and issue a list of industries that pose a high risk of polluting the environment. The ministry was asked to co-operate...
Natural disasters caused losses of VND39.72 trillion ($1.75 billion) in Vietnam in 2016, equivalent to nearly 1% of the country’s gross domestic product during the year, Minister Nguyen Xuan Cuong of Agriculture and Rural Development said at a...
Vietnam suffers losses equivalent to 5% of its gross domestic product (GDP) annually from air pollution, state media reported, citing Dr. Le Viet Phu from Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California at Berkeley. He...
If Vietnam does not change its way of developing its economy, it could be listed among the world’s top 10 countries with high pollution by 2035 and surpass China in pollution levels, economists have warned. Five months ago, the news about a paper...
