Deputy Defence Minister Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh on May 8 received U.S. ambassador to Vietnam Ted Osius in Hanoi. U.S. doubles funding for post-war landmine removal Vietnam willing to solve post-war issues with U.S. Vinh proposed...
Disadvantaged households in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong will have up to 80% of their coffee strain cost covered by the local People’s Committee. The supported families all live below the poverty line or members of the ethnic groups...
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung asked ministries, sectors and localities to heighten their sense of responsibility towards rapid and sustainable poverty alleviation to turn the country into an industrialized society by 2020. Speaking at an online...
Specific programs and policies issued by the Party and State over recent years have vastly improved the living conditions of ethnic minority people in the Central Highlands. The Central Highlands encompasses the five provinces of Dak Lak, Gia Lai,...
It is hot, although it is still very early in the morning, and a group of ethnic minority women are already at work, picking tender tea leaves on a mountainside in the northern province of Lai Chau. The Dao Do (Red Dao) women of Tam Duong District...
The U.S. Embassy in Vietnam has started a project receiving funding from the U.S. government to conserve the world heritage Ha Long Bay and the Cat Ba archipelago. The First Leadership Committee meeting of the Ha Long – Cat Ba Alliance is a public-...
The southern province of Kien Giang is working on a pre-feasibility report on a water supply project in the island district of Phu Quoc, according to Deputy Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Le Khac Ghi. The report will be conducted with...
The Ho Chi Minh City Union of Friendship Organizations (HUFO) held a gathering for international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) on May 7. Vice President applauds foreign NGOs’ contributions International NGOs donation in 2014 reached $300...
Ho Chi Minh City-based Cho Ray Hospital on Apr 30 inaugurated a 250-bed oncology center after two years of construction at a total cost of nearly VND429 billion ($19.9 million), the Ministry of Health said. The center, covering an area of over 21,...
Although Vietnam performed organ transplant operations half a century later than much of the rest of the world and 20 years later than regional countries, it has now caught up with countries that have modern medicine. Vietnam has successfully...
