The Prime Minister has approved nearly VND74 billion, or about $3.29 million, in financial support for the Vietnam Rubber Group which has employed many ethnic minority workers from underprivileged, mountainous areas in 2014. Ethnic minority poverty...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said it will double its financing for climate resilience projects in Asia-Pacific countries including Vietnam to $6 billion a year by 2020. As many as 66% of the total amount will be dedicated to mitigation through...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister has approved the construction of 25 bridges to replace weak structures nationwide under the transport credit project funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to improve national transport. Total investment...
Though there are 132 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in HCMC, only 38 of them have registered to recruit local employees through Service Company to Foreign Missions (FOSCO), the firm authorized to recruit and manage Vietnamese employees at...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health has issued a draft law on population in which authorities will tighten control over illegal abortion. The draft law stipulated that anyone aged under 18 would need the consent of one or both of their parents or guardian...
The health ministry has sent 10 teams to inspect dengue prevention work in 20 cities and provinces, the Preventive Health Bureau has said. The cities and provinces that will be covered are Hanoi, Thanh Hoa, Nghe An and Ha Tinh, besides Danang, Quang...
The Children Hospital No.1 in Ho Chi Minh City yesterday announced to perform an operation on 2 year old toddler to remove a hemangioma. Earlier, Nguyen Ngoc Thanh P, 2, from the Mekong delta province of Soc Trang was hospitalized when her health...
Vietnam Clean Water Investment and Construction Corporation (VIWACO) will raise running water prices for households in the capital city of Hanoi by 19% to VND6,869 (30 US cent) per cubic meter (cu.m) starting this October. The rate will be applied...
Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai recently asked the Hanoi People's Committee to verify media reports about the severe pollution of some rivers and lakes in the capital. Over the last few months, several media sources reported that...
The breakage of a pipeline that supplies water to a part of the Vietnamese capital has seriously affected the medical operations of the Hanoi Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, with about 20 caesareans delayed. The incident happened when the...
