A documentary “Lighter than Orange-Legacy of Dioxin in Vietnam” will be showed at Hanoi Cinematheque at 19:30 local time on June 18. This documentary reveals a political failure through individual biographies. It depicts the fates of a few of the 4...
Over the past years, Vietnam has implemented policies to boost socio-economic development among ethnic minorities. However, the poverty rate remains high among the groups. To reduce the poverty rate and improve the spiritual and material lives of...
The program on boosting socio-economic development in extremely disadvantaged ethnic minority-inhabited and mountainous communes (Program 135) is disbursing nearly VND47 billion to assist 29 communes in building basic infrastructure and enhancing...
German Ambassador to Vietnam Jutta Frasch has awarded 50 scholarships worth nearly EUR1 million ($1.1 million) to 50 Vietnamese students and scientists who would take part in training courses in Germany this summer, state media reported on June 8....
Vietnam’s government on June 10 announced the extension and capital increase of a project on “Policy support in healthcare coverage for poor people in Cao Bang, Bac Kan” using official development assistance (ODA) from the Luxembourg government. The...
The Ministry of Health decided to set up four quick response teams to keep vigil on the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in the North, the South, the Central and the Highlands region, said Deputy Health Minister Professor Nguyen Thanh Long on...
Vietnam has been taking a series of urgent measures to prevent a possible outbreak of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome caused by the Corona virus, known as MERS-CoV, including boosting quarantine among suspected cases of the virus, state media...
During the Action Month for Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission Prevention 2015 from June 1st-30th with the theme “Toward elimination of mother-to-child transmission”, Ho Chi Minh city has strengthened activities to ensure 99% of babies whose mothers...
Vietnam Social Insurance Agency (VSIA) said that as of May 31, about 64.6 million people, or 71.4% of the total population, have bought health insurance, up 2.7 million from the same period last year, the Ha Noi Moi newspaper reported June 11. The...
Vietnam’s policymakers are considering removing restriction on two-child birth in its family planning policies in the face of falling birth rate and population ageing. The General Office for Population Family Planning, under the Ministry of Health,...
