Authorities in northern Lai Chau province are making efforts to promote local crops and raise incomes for local residents, aiming to reduce hunger and poverty. The promoted crops include cassava, bananas and edible canna, which are highly...
The northern mountainous province of Son La is focusing its efforts on socio-economic development in ethnic minority areas, seeking to lower the rate of impoverished household by 3%-4% per year through 2019. The locality aims to bring electricity to...
The French Development Agency (AFD) and authorities of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on March 17 signed a contract worth millions of euro to provide medical equipment for installation at Can Tho General Hospital. The contract is under the...
Vietnam has launched a $2-million project receiving financial support from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to improve HIV prevention capacity in three provinces until the end of 2017. The project will focus on promoting...
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has recently launched the emerging pandemic threats 2 (EPT-2) program to support efforts in Vietnam to better prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats. The program is...
At a conference held in Hanoi on March 18 to raise awareness about cervical cancer, it was revealed that nine women are dying every day in Vietnam because of the disease. Reports at the conference, which was co-organized by the Institute for...
District and provincial hospitals in the northern province of Hoa Binh will has their capacity enhanced under a healthcare project funded by the World Bank which is carried out this year. Hoa Binh is among northeastern and Red River Delta provinces...
About 2,500 out of nearly 20,000 hectares of crops in the central province of Khanh Hoa have been affected by the current drought, which is the most severe in ten years and is expected to last until September. Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai...
A Vietnamese NGO has called on the government not to compromise with “greedy” bear farm owners who asked to be paid in exchange for the release of exhausted bears. The farm owners based in Quang Ninh Province, home to Vietnam's world heritage Ha...
The Management Board of Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, a UNESCO Natural Heritage Site in the central Vietnamese province of Quang Binh, on March 16 said it has released eight rare wild animals back into the natural environment. These animals...
