Since its first launch in 2011, the program on texting DACAM to 1409, one of the numbers of the National Humanitarian Portal 1400, and donating VND18,000 each to support Agent Orange victims, reported one million messages as of late September,...
Authorities of the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang intend to mobilize nearly VND3.3 trillion (around $148.5 million) from all sectors to realize its sustainable poverty reduction goals. The locality aims to cut the number of poor households by 1...
The Government and the President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee have issued a joint resolution on coordination in implementing sustainable poverty reduction and building new-style rural areas and civilized urban areas. The...
The Vietnam Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) has proposed the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to maintain its lending at around $1 billion per annum while adopting measures to improve the readiness and quality of projects, the bank said in its latest...
The Swiss government has committed to providing CHF90 million ($92 million) worth of official development assistance (ODA) for Vietnam over the 2017-2020 period to help the country carry out prioritized projects. The commitment is part of the...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health has instructed the Binh Duong’s Health Department to keep a close watch on suspected Zika virus inspections after a Zika case was detected in the southern province, state media reported. About 300 people in Thuan An town...
Local authorities in Dien Chau District in the central province of Nghe An have stepped up efforts to prevent dengue fever from spreading in Dien Thinh Commune further after recent breakout of the disease in the locality, state media reported. About...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health confirmed last week that two more women had tested positive for Zika, the fourth and fifth native cases infected with the mosquito-borne virus in the country since April this year, state media reported. The two female...
Vietnam in recent years have recorded a surge in the number of people admitted with heart disease, said Chairman Nguyen Lan Viet of the Vietnam Heart Association Professor at a national convention on October 10 in Hanoi. Accordingly, one or two out...
The Institute of Material Science under the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology on October announced that it has successfully created Nano FGC complex, state media reported. Nano FGC complex is a new material to produce medicine for cancer...
