Dozens of thousands of farmers and fishermen in nine central coastal provinces have benefited from the Coastal Resources for Sustainable Development (CRSD) Project funded by the World Bank (WB) in the past years. The project, which began in 2012,...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a project against wildlife trading which will receive $10 million in non-refundable aid from the U.S. government for the 2017-2021 period. The United States Agency of International Development (...
Tablet-based forest monitoring does not only improve the quality of collected data, but also makes the process of data collection and reporting easier for users compared with the current paper-based methods. Nguyen Quoc Tri, deputy head of the...
The Department of Preventive Medicine under Vietnam’s Ministry of Health has said that since the beginning of the year 82 kids with whooping cough (pertussis) had been reported, mostly from the northern region. Among localities, Hanoi has 21 cases...
Cuban Deputy Health Minister Marcia Cobas on March 13 begun a visit to Vietnam, focusing on promoting cooperation between the two countries in this field. On the same day, she met with executives at the AMV Group, which has maintained ties with the...
The Government Office has just announced the instructions of Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on the bidding of drugs in public health facilities in an attempt to lower medicine prices, local media reported. Accordingly, Mr. Dam has asked the...
Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City has recorded three deaths caused by dengue fever in Districts 5 and 12 since the beginning of the year, local media reported. The preventive medicine center has examined and implemented precautionary measures in District...
Hanoi Sewage and Drainage Co., Ltd (HSDC) said that it has treated water in all lakes in urban areas and 36 out of 140 lakes in the outlying districts as of Mar 8, state media reported Friday. The company used Redoxy-3C, combined fenton-like-...
Six interdisciplinary inspection teams will be set up to examine food safety in 12 cities and provinces across the country from April 15 to May 15 following the direction of the National Interdisciplinary Steering Committee on Food Safety. The...
Customs authorities at Noi Bai International Airport in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi on March 14 seized more than 100 kilograms of rhino horn smuggled into the country through the flight KQ870 from Nairobi, Kenya. State media reported Wednesday...
