General News

  • Vietnam Railways Corporation will officially complete the Hanoi-HCM City Railway Bridge Rehabilitation Project funded by the Japanese government on Jan. 14, eight months ahead of schedule. The VND9.28 trillion ($412.4 million) project on increasing...
    Monday, 18th January, 2016
  • Vietnam will begin construction of the Mai Dich-Nam Thang Long viaduct project costing VND3.7 trillion ($164 million) with majority funded by the Japanese government in June, a representative of the Thang Long Project Management Board. The project...
    Monday, 18th January, 2016
  • The World Bank (WB) and the General Department of Vietnam Customs under the Finance Ministry signed a deal to support Vietnamese customs to implement the World Trade Organization’s Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA). Under the agreement, the WB will...
    Monday, 18th January, 2016
  • The Vietnam Union of Friendship Organizations (VUFO) will continue expanding its relations with prestigious foreign individuals and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), its presidium members said on Jan 14. At the third meeting of the VUFO...
    Monday, 18th January, 2016
  • Vietnam’s Center for Research and Production of Vaccines and Biologicals has recently started the second phase of a test of the locally made polio vaccine, or IPOVAC vaccine, on 240 children in 10 districts of northern province of Phu Tho. The...
    Monday, 18th January, 2016
  • Bach Mai Hospital, one of the biggest hospitals in Vietnam’s Hanoi capital city, has come up with fines and punishments for all personnel related to a recent medical waste scandal in which the waste was recycled instead of getting disposed. At a...
    Monday, 18th January, 2016
  • Up to 3,542 Vietnamese across the country have registered to donate their organs for the purpose of transplantation into another person as of December 31, 2015, of which male volunteers account for 57.9% and female 42.1%, local media reported citing...
    Monday, 18th January, 2016
  • Vietnam has discovered no case of Zika virus but the authorities still warn people travelling from Zika-virus-affected countries to be careful with their health conditions. The Zika virus, a mosquito-borne viral disease, is a rare tropical disease....
    Monday, 18th January, 2016
  • Vietnam reports 12,000-14,000 new HIV cases every year, putting the number of people living with HIV/AIDS in all cities and provinces nationwide at 254,000 to date, according to a recent conference held by Ministry of Health in Hanoi. For the past...
    Monday, 18th January, 2016
  • About VND10.4 billion ($464,000) will be invested in a Japan-funded project on capacity building and technology training to reduce clean water loss in Hanoi City from 2016-2018. The project, carried out by the Hanoi Water Ltd. Co., is intended to...
    Monday, 18th January, 2016