Vulnerable children and poor families in the south-central Vietnamese province of Binh Thuan, who have been suffering the country’s worst drought in nearly a century, have been helped with a much-needed $60,000 aid package from an international...
The U.S.-based Half the Sky Foundation will sponsor more than $3.4 million to build the OneSky care centre and kindergarten in the central city of Danang. The foundation and the municipal Department of Education and Training signed an agreement...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a $122 million border areas development supporting project, funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the state-run Dau Tu online newspaper reported on May 5. The project will help the five...
The World Bank (WB) will finance $385 million to Vietnam in improving capacity to adapt to climate change by upgrading smart infrastructure in Mekong delta and promoting livelihood in rural areas. Under the Mekong Delta Integrated Climate Resilience...
Police and the Market Watch Department in Vietnam’s northern province of Hung Yen on May 4 confiscated 9.7 tons of medicinal herbs without certificate of origin used to make Chinese traditional medicine. The herbs were stored in sacks and cartons...
Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi has started construction of a medical high-tech center that specializes in endoscopic surgery and digestion treatment at the Saint Paul General Hospital, state media reported. The center, which covers an area of 2,800...
Approximately 690 breaches of food safety and quality regulations were discovered between late December, 2015 and mid-April this year with the total fine collected worth more than VND5.3 billion ($238,000). According to deputy head of the Hanoi...
Consumers drawn to shops advertising “clean” vegetables and fruit are beginning to question if the stores’ claims are valid. A woman from HCM City with a two-month-old child, for example, often buys produce at a store in her district that sells safe...
While unsafe food was a growing threat in Vietnam, it was critical to develop a food supply chain to improve control quality from the farm to table, experts said at an online conference held in Hanoi on May 4. Food safety violations, which were...
More severe weather conditions, particularly a drought and heat wave, will continue to occur in Vietnam this year with damaging results, said Le Thanh Hai, deputy director of the National Hydro-Meteorological Forecast Center. Houses and crops could...
