The Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has issued an index of programs in education that can be covered by the state budget, local media reported. Accordingly, the state budget will pay for educational activities for disabled children in preschools,...
The capital city of Hanoi will strive to help 10,230 families rise out of poverty in 2017, equivalent to a 0.6% reduction in household poverty rate. To this goal, the municipal Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs have drafted plans to...
For years, Ho Chi Minh City has gained achievement in poverty reduction which is a contributable factor to keep political and social order. Currently, it has carried out multi-dimensional poverty reduction program for the period 2016-2020. In the...
Roughly 17 million or more than 18% of Vietnam’s population had not entered the health insurance program by the end of 2016. Most are laborers, poor people and students, the Vietnam Social Insurance (VNSI) has said. A report from the agency showed...
Thousands of tourists flocked to the 2017 culture festival of Mong ethnic people in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang from February 4-5. The annual event in Meo Vac district, the third of its kind, aims to preserve the traditional...
Located in the mountainous region of Quang Ngai, schools for ethnic minority students are often far away from residential areas, students therefore walk all day and through slippery roads to schools; sometimes, they must stay in school in meagerly...
Vietnam Construction and Import-Export Joint Stock Corporation (HNX: VCG), known as Vinaconex, has won a VND245 billion ($11 million) package of the Danang - Quang Ngai expressway, funded by the World Bank and the Japan International Cooperation...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Health has planned to release mosquitoes with Wolbachia bacteria into wild in Nha Trang city since March as part of the project to eliminate dengue in Vietnam. The aim of the program is to spread Wolbachia into wild...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health plans to look into health check-ups and treatments offered at some public hospitals this year to ensure equal fees are charged at all facilities, local media reported. The ministry will also inspect tenders and purchases...
Doctors at Cho Ray Hospital in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City have successfully performed the country’s first living paired-kidney exchange transplant, local media reported. Nguyen Thi Hue, 58, volunteered to donate one of her kidneys to her daughter Vu...
