Vietnam has made strides in poverty reduction, illiteracy eradication and especially maternal and child mortality, according to Youssouf Abdel-Jelil, country director at the United Nations Children’s Funds (UNICEF). Children have grown up healthy...
Vietnam has suspended the administration of an infant vaccine nationwide after hundreds of parents, trying to secure shots for their children, caused a chaotic scene in front of a medical center in Hanoi. Tran Dac Phu, head of the Preventive Health...
Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has called for tighter food safety management during a meeting on December 25 in Hanoi to review food management in 2015 and set tasks for 2016. The Deputy PM, who heads the National Inter-sector Steering...
The infrastructure needs of the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta to battle the impact of climate change will be a key factor before setting up six agro-ecological zones in the region, Deputy Minister of Construction Phan Thi My Linh said on Dec 21 in Hanoi....
An earthquake with the magnitude of 3.2 on the Richter scale occurred at 11:8 p.m. last night in A Luoi district, the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, reported the Natural Disaster Prevention and Search and Rescue Center in the province this...
The education and training ministry has issued Circular 32, which stipulates the criteria for admission to higher education institutions. Admission will be based on three criteria, which are the number of students per lecturer in a department, the...
Vietnam’s National Assembly Vice Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan and visiting Vice President Koshiishi Azuma of Japan's House of Councilors have shared their contentment toward the growing Vietnam-Japan relationship since it was elevated to extensive...
The State Steering Committee on National Mine Action Program, also known as Steering Committee 504, called on donors and non-governmental organizations to constructively take part in the Mine Action Partnership Group (MAPG). The committee made the...
Almost 106,000 poor households in ten provinces and cities nationwide improved sanitation and built new latrines with aid from a project by East Meets West organization in the last three years. The Community Hygiene Output-Based Aids (CHOBA) project...
The Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) has provided preferential loans for around 2.6 million poor and near-poor families in the Northwestern region, allowing 363,000 of them to escape from poverty, according to the bank. The preferential loans...
