The U.S. is gradually increasing its funding to victims of Agent Orange (AO) which is left since the Vietnam War, and both American and Vietnamese governments now willingly speak about AO, according to an aide from the U.S. government. “We are not...
A group of doctors from “Facing the World,” a United Kingdom-based charity, will provide free surgery to some 70-80 Vietnamese children with facial disfigurements from April 6-16 in Viet Duc and Hong Ngoc hospitals in Hanoi, state media reported....
Lots of unexploded ordnance (UXO) have been found in localities across the northern province of Thai Nguyen, announced the provincial Military Command on April 13. On April 12, Nguyen Van Giai from Nga My commune, Phu Binh district unearthed an...
Two Australia-funded vocational training projects underway in northern Ha Giang province’s Quang Ngan and Lung Phin villages have helped Dao ethnic minority women escape poverty. (http://english.vov.vn/society/australia-offers-vocation-training-to-...
Vietnam’s central coastal province of Khanh Hoa will use loans of $10 million from the World Bank to upgrade eight local water reservoirs in the next five years, said Le Xuan Than, vice chairman of the province’s executive body People’s Committee....
The World Bank (WB), Vietnam’s biggest multilateral donor, had provided $3.7 billion in official development assistance (ODA) over past four years, said Sandeep Mahajan, Chief Economist of the WB office in Vietnam. Vietnam will be soon no longer to...
Vietnam reports about 150,000 new people getting diagnosed with cancer and more than 75,000 die of the disease every year, according to figures of the Ministry of Health. According to the ministry’s report, some 74.3% of the total burden of diseases...
Vietnam has about 150,000 new cancer patients, and more than 75,000 people die of cancer each year, Deputy Minister of Health Pham Le Tuan said at a conference on the issue in Hanoi on Apr 12. Cancer is one of the 10 most critical diseases in...
The action month on food safety will start on the 15th of this month in HCM City, the Food Safety and Hygiene Department said. The city’s inspection team will check management activities related to food safety in districts across the city. Fruit,...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, who took office last week, will hold a meeting with relevant agencies to discuss measures to tighten control over food and agricultural products quality as well as agricultural production, state media has...
