A recent music performance night in Dak Glong, the Central Highland province of Dak Nong started a seven-day tour of local remote communes by ethnic amateur singers. The tour is part of a project initiated by Oxfam Vietnam to raise the voice of...
Promoting gender integration in implementing action plans related to millennium development goals (MDG) in ethnic minority areas was the main focus of a training workshop held in central Binh Thuan province on July 21 and 22. Jointly held by the...
Projects run by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the northern province of Thai Nguyen are making active contributions to local socio-economic development, especially poverty reduction efforts. So far, the province has granted 72 operational...
Authorities in Vietnam’s northern province of Quang Ninh has selected Cua Van fishing village in Hung Thang commune of Ha Long city to be the location for a pilot project of the “Ha Long – Cat Ba Alliance” that receives funding from the U.S. Agency...
The World Bank is willing to provide Official Development Assistance (ODA) and International Development Association (IDA) loans to Vietnam, a senior bank official said here Friday. The loans will help Vietnam in raising funding budget for the asset...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Ministry of Finance (MoF) have jointly issued Circular 16 stating that health insurance services will cover medical treatment during holidays starting September this year. According to the regulation,...
The Drug Administration of Vietnam (DAV) under the Ministry of Health starting on July 30 will ban about 22,000 types of cosmetic products for containing five derivatives of Paraben that are suspected of causing breast cancer and male infertility....
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health is working on a draft decree aimed at improving regulations over immunization activities, a move deemed necessary in the wake of rising demand for better public healthcare, the government said on its website July 20. The...
The Department of Health of the mountainous Phuoc Loc Commune in the central province of Quang Nam has just confirmed the second positive case of diphtheria this week. The case was announced after the department received the results from three...
Vietnam has 31,000 drug users receiving methadone treatment, or only 15% of total drug addicts, leaving huge burdens on rehabilitation activities that cost the country hundreds of billions of dong per year. The treatment is carried out in 170...
