The HCM City Association for Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (HAVA) on July 1 held a ground-breaking ceremony for a centre known as AO village to care for and provide vocational training and rehabilitation for AO/Dioxin victims. The project will be...
The Prime Minister has issued a decision, revising the credit plans of the Social Policy Bank this year. Under the decision, the credit debt plan amount will increase by 3.5%, or equal to VND11.6 trillion ($531 million). With the revision, the total...
Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Roberto Azevedo has taken Vietnam as an example of poverty alleviation at the launch ceremony of the book “The Role of Trade in Ending Poverty” jointly compiled by WTO and the World Bank Group (...
Vietnam must work harder to support its numerous ethnicities, who mainly reside in remote, mountainous regions, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh said during a conference on Thursday reviewing policies on ethnic minority groups. Despite recent...
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved a credit line of $77 million for a project to reform the general education system in Vietnam, aiming to improve student learning outcomes through revising the curriculum and instruction. The...
The Bach Mai and Military 108 hospitals in Hanoi have successfully used a new method called selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT) Spheres Y-90, to treat liver tumour. The new treatment is reportedly helping to prolong the lives of liver cancer...
Demand for body organs for life-saving transplants in Vietnam is high but supplies are low. This is because hundreds of people with terminal ailments - or their relatives - refuse to agree to donate vital body parts, such as heart, kidneys or liver...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health has asked health departments across the country to increase training courses for doctors and nurses to proactively cope with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) as it develops. The ministry...
Vietnam is estimated to have 22,000 liver cancer cases a year, of which 21,000 die, or 95.4% of the total cases, the Hanoi Moi newspaper reported from a seminar jointly held by Bach Mai Hospital and Military 108 Hospital on treating cancer with...
As many as 2,700 children in Vietnam have received funding for heart operations in the past seven years from the “A Heart for You” program sponsored by the state-run Vietnam Television (VTV) and the military-run Viettel Mobile. In the past years,...
