The Ministry of Health’s Preventive Health Department has warned of a high risk of avian influenza A/H7N9 outbreaks in Vietnam. Tran Dac Phu, Director of the department said at a conference in Hanoi on January 28 that while there has been no report...
An outbreak of whooping cough has been deemed unlikely due to the high vaccination rate, according to the Ministry of Health’s response to recent recorded cases in Hanoi recently. The Hanoi-based National Hospital of Paediatrics has admitted nine...
A dozen water supply and wastewater treatment plants are scheduled to be built in the Mekong Delta region before 2020 to improve water supply and wastewater-treatment capacity across the region. The plans were discussed at a meeting with...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) set up the Advisory Council for the National Committee on Climate Change on Jan 22, bringing together leading local scientists in areas related to climate change assessment and relief...
Vietnam will spend VND11.4 trillion ($530 million) on environment protection in 2015, including 15% from the state budget and the remaining from the local authorities, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment said. The total estimated...
The National Hydro-Meteorology Centre will fortify its collaboration with foreign organizations and countries such as Japan, the Republic of Korea (RoK), Italy and the US to deploy technological potential in forecasting and monitoring hydrological...
The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has pledged to provide over $30 million in official development assistance (ODA) for Vietnam to carry out some education projects in central Vietnam. The projects include one on upgrading Vietnam-...
The Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) have provided preferential loans for 1.4 million poor and near-poor households and policy beneficiaries in the Mekong Delta region between 2011-2014. The loans enabled 230,000 of the targeted households to...
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...
