Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has decided to allocate nearly 7,000 tons of rice from the national reserves for poor areas between crop harvests, the first time in 2015. Under the decision, the Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of...
Xoe dancing, an indispensible activity in the cultural life of the Tay ethnic people in Ta Chai commune, Bac Ha district, northern Lao Cai province, has been listed as a national intangible cultural heritage. The People’s Committee of Bac Ha...
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved $100 million in additional financing for an ongoing poverty reduction project in Vietnam that helps improve living standards for poor people in six northwest provinces, the country’s poorest...
The European Union has earmarked EUR346 million to support Vietnam in developing the energy sector in a sustainable way, said Marcus Comaro, deputy general director of the Directorate General for Development and Cooperation of the European...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Health has asked all hospitals across the country to set up automatic numbering systems for patients by June. The move is part of the ministry’s plan to reform administration and healthcare procedures to slash the waiting...
The 8th Red Spring festival, the year’s largest gathering of blood donors, will be taken place on March 8th in Hanoi. This year’s festival began on February 24th and hopes to achieve an overall contribution of 8,000 units. The main day on March 8th...
A short supply of 5-in-1 pediatric vaccine Pentaxim has prompted hundreds of parents in Hanoi to spend their night in front of an immunization station, to secure one of the 300 available doses for their children. Despite the cold weather, many...
Authorities in Vietnam’s southern province of Soc Trang have detected appearance of bird flu in two districts Long Phu and Ke Sach during the past two weeks, said Quach Van Tay, head of the provincial Department of Animal Health. Samples taken from...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has requested the Ministry of Health and the Vietnam Social Security to take tough measures to boost the country’s health insurance coverage rate to 75% in 2015 and 80% by 2020. The request was made at a...
The Ministry of Health (MoH) has set up two centers to cope with influenza in Hanoi and HCM City. The moves follow a recent warning by the World Health Organization (WHO) over dangerous changes in the flu virus, said the General Department of...
