The Steering Committee for the Central Highlands said the regional provinces have worked together to mobilize nearly VND3.8 trillion ($177.1 million) to improve infrastructure and production in impoverished ethnic-minority communities. This...
Last year, the Fatherland Front Committee of the central province of Ninh Thuan built 84 houses and offered 30,000 gifts worth VND10 billion ($468,000) for the poor and families who had made contributions to the country during wartime. The money was...
The government’s educational project targeting nine minority ethnic groups with populations under 5,000 has produced positive results after four years of implementation. According to Nguyen Hoa, Deputy Director of the provincial Education and...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a census project on 53 ethnic minorities, not including the major group of Kinh people, to improve managerial work on ethnic issues, the government said on its website. Authorities will collect...
The Vietnamese prime minister has proposed the president allow the State Bank of Vietnam to sign two loan agreements worth $53.2 million for the Nhon-Hanoi Station railway in the capital city of Hanoi. Of the sum, $49 million is expected to come...
As many as 10,000 doses of oral cholera vaccine manufactured by the Company for Vaccine and Biological Production No1 (VABIOTECH) under the Ministry of Health (MoH) will be exported to the Philippines, according to the company’s Director Do Tuan Dat...
Vietnam’s health sector will spread the antiretroviral (ARV) treatment to cover early-stage HIV carriers, raising the number of the benefited to 105,000 in 2015. The news was unveiled at a workshop in Ho Chi Minh City on December 26. The Ministry of...
Foreign patients paid an estimated $1 billion for treatments services at medical facilities in Vietnam last year, the Thoi Bao Kinh Te Saigon newspaper reported on Jan 6, citing the Ministry of Health. Most medical treatments chosen by foreign...
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...
