Though education projects funded by official development assistance (ODA) in Vietnam have helped many localities in improving the teaching quality, many experts in the field still complain of the inefficiency of such projects, the Dau Tu newspaper...
The Global Environment Fund (GEF) has funded a project to boost biodiversity preservation in Vietnam through the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). A conference was held in Hanoi on September 22 to review the implementation of the National...
Along with the hike in medical services, many drugs and vaccines sold as optional services surged from the beginning of the year. Though the prices of vaccines in Vietnam have not surged massively, many of them increased bringing much...
Vietnam needs estimated VND7.5 trillion ($335 million) to control HIV/AIDS in the 2016-2020 period and the country could cover nearly 90% of the total figure only, Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long said at a conference on Sept 24. The...
Pollution from waste water released by shrimp farms has killed millions of farmed shrimp in central Quang Tri Province, causing "huge losses" for farmers, Vietnam News reports. The province's veterinary authorities said 79 out of 223 hectares of...
Vietnam is quickly finishing the Intended National Determined Contributions to participate in the 21st Conference of Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, set to be held in Paris this December. Countries across...
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in collaboration with the United Kingdom Embassy co-organized a seminar about raising public awareness of climate change towards the 21st Conference of Parties in Hanoi, on September 23. At the seminar,...
Vietnam’s government is estimated to spend VND224.826 trillion (about $10 billion) on education and training in 2015, equal to approximately 20% of the state budget expenditure for this year or 5% of the gross domestic product (GDP) recorded...
Tuition fees at Vietnamese universities and colleges may spike up 10% a year starting next academic year, local media reported Sept 25 citing a draft document on new ceiling tuition fees made by the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET). The new...
Vietnamese prime minister has given the nod to a project on developing distance learning in the 2015-2020 period, aiming to verify all programs of this kind by the date. Particularly, the plan seeks to encourage all educational establishments...
