Hanoi is striving to reduce its poverty rate by 0.2% from 2014 by removing 3,500 poor households from the list this year. It also targets no commune with poor families accounting for 25% of total population. To achieve these goals, the city will...
Vietnam has successfully sent people from ethnic minority groups to work abroad, including demanding markets like Japan and South Korea. Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) Pham Thi Hai Chuyen made the statement at a conference...
Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has asked Vietnam Expressway Corp. (VEC) to take measures to accelerate site clearance of the Danang-Quang Ngai Expressway, state media reported. Mr. Hai allowed VEC itself to mobilize capital from other...
The Ministry of Health has issued a warning of the reoccurrence of measles in Vietnam, especially in the winter, as the disease is plaguing in some districts bordering with Laos and China. The warning was made though around 15 million children at...
Vinmec International Hospital in Hanoi has put an advanced radiation therapy centre into use, providing more treatment facilities to canner patients in Vietnam. Equipped with modern medical facilities, the VND100-billion ($4.75 million) centre will...
Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien urged the General Department of Population and Family Planning to improve its services at the local level while attending a conference in Hanoi on January 20. The official hailed the sector’s 2014 efforts to...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved the allocation of VND3 trillion ($140 million) from the state budget in 2015 for climate change projects. The program include 16 unfinished projects under the Support Program to Respond to...
The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) organised a workshop in Hanoi on January 21 to formally launch a project to facilitate the development of green energy technologies. The initiative, worth over $4 million, will be implemented at both...
Education plays a crucial role in enabling impoverished children and communities to partake in economic development as well as maintaining long-term development, a recent study of childhood poverty reveals. "The study results indicate obvious...
Vietnam has attracted $825.5 million of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the education and training sector as of December 2014, accounting for just 0.33% of the country’s total FDI. The country has licensed 204 FDI projects in the sector during...
