A 21-month child from the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang died of hand-foot-mouth disease on January 5, several days after she had been hospitalized. Doctor Tran Van De, Director of Can Tho Paediatrics Hospital, which provided treatment for...
The saltwater intrusion has had an adverse impact on rice farming and aquaculture in coastal areas of Vietnam’s southernmost province of Ca Mau, said provincial Department of Natural Resources and Environment. A report released by the department...
Businesses will have to "seriously apply" environmentally-friendly technologies if the Lien Chieu Industrial Zone (IZ) is to reduce its Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions by five% by 2020, an expert cautioned. But the large investments involved were...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has decided to remove the university entrance exams starting in the 2015-2016 academic year to save costs and time as proposed by senior experts and local people. There will be only one national...
The movement “Tet for the poor and Agent Orange (AO) victims” launched by the Vietnam Red Cross (VRC) in 1999 has brought about practical results and become a beautiful characteristic in social lifestyle as well as becoming a traditional activity...
A team from the Ministry of National Defense has found a 120-kilogram bomb in the central province of Ha Tinh. The bomb, which was made in the U.S., contains 50 kilograms of explosive, said lieut-colonel Nguyen Han Thien. (Danviet.vn Dec 28)
Poverty figures for the nation could rise when the Government approves new measurement criteria by the third quarter of 2015, labor officials said yesterday. They said that the criteria, which will use a multi-dimensional approach, measure people's...
As many as 323,200 households in the Mekong Delta got rid of poverty in 2014, exceeding the set target by 3.4%, according to the Steering Committee for the Southwestern Region (SCSR). As a result, the poverty percentage dropped to 5.7% by the end of...
The opening ceremony of the first Thai ethnic cultural festival was held in the northern province of Lai Chau on December 27, featuring the ethnic group’s traditional identities. It was attended by Le Hong Anh, a Politburo member and standing member...
About 1,900 low-income households of ethnic minority groups in the southern province of Dong Nai are expected to escape from poverty in 2015, said the provincial Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs. The ethnic minority households,...
