General News

  • The national education channel-VTV7 will officially go on air on the first day of 2016, Vietnam National Television’s Deputy General Director Pham Viet Tien said on December 28. VTV7, which is operated by Ministry of Education and Training, Vietnam...
    Monday, 4th January, 2016
  • Local authorities are willing to spend trillions of dong to build imposing monuments, but are hesitant to spend money for nursery schools. A report of the World Bank shows that Vietnam has 15,500 under-six children who are deaf or hearing impaired....
    Monday, 4th January, 2016
  • Military personnel in the Central Highlands have found nearly 300 kilograms of unexploded grenades left behind from the Vietnam War in the last few days besides a deadly 200-kilogram bomb. Officers working in Kon Tum Province found the giant bomb on...
    Monday, 28th December, 2015
  • The community-based health care and first aid project has helped improve health and self-recovery ability of the poor and vulnerable people in Ba Thuoc district, central Thanh Hoa province, according to the Vietnam Red Cross. The project, sponsored...
    Monday, 28th December, 2015
  • Ethnic groups with a population of less than 5,000 each have been given a better education in the past five years, according to the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET). The project on education development for ethnic minority groups basically...
    Monday, 28th December, 2015
  • Many countries and organizations have planned to stop providing official development assistance (ODA) for Vietnam, imposing challenges for Vietnam to seek other funds for its development, state media reported, citing a Vietnamese ministry. The UK is...
    Monday, 28th December, 2015
  • Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) provided Vietnam with a total $283 million in aid in 2015, it was announced at a conference in Hanoi on December 23 to sum up NGOs work and lay out tasks for next year. The amount of aid was less than the $304...
    Monday, 28th December, 2015
  • More than 1,400 Vietnamese people have registered to donate organs and tissue on December 19 in Hanoi, setting a new record in Vietnam, state media reported. The record was made at a festival entitled Joining Hands for Life. Organ donation is a...
    Monday, 28th December, 2015
  • Vietnam’s healthcare is expected to grow 10% a year by 2024 and it still remains an attractive market, according to a market research specialist of Kantar Worldpanel Vietnam, state media reported. Healthcare spending is expected to more than double...
    Monday, 28th December, 2015
  • Each year, 5,664 new cases of cervical cancer are recorded in Vietnam and nearly 2,500 women have died of the disease, said Luu Thi Hong, Director of the Maternal and Child Health Department under the Ministry of Health. Health experts said cervical...
    Monday, 28th December, 2015