The 6th Culture, Sports and Tourism Festival of the Khmer ethnic people in southern Vietnam will commence on November 27 in Hau Giang province. The three-day event aims to honor and promote the culture of the Khmer people to domestic and...
The government of Germany has provided a non-refundable aid worth EUR8 million for a project on forest ecosystem protection and management in Vietnam. The German Reconstruction Bank (KfW) will grant the amount of money after signing an agreement to...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Health has ruled out concerns about BCG vaccine, which protects against tuberculosis and was administered this month to three infants in the northern region of Vietnam, who died soon afterward. Investors have yet to find a...
The Ministry of Health recommends the public to strictly follow precautionary measures in order to prevent the A/H5N8 bird flu strain, which currently occurs in poultry in several European and Asian countries, from infecting humans. People are...
A project on building an HIV-addiction treatment technology transfer centre was officially kicked off at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy in on November 21. The project is a joint effort of the Ho Chi Minh City University of...
Vietnam has spent VND96 trillion ($904 million) official development assistance (ODA) on 51 water supply projects since 1998, an official from the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) said. Better management in water supplying sector has...
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has launched a four-year long project to restore the Lang Sen Wetlands Reserve in the southern province of Long An. The project, titled "Avoidance of maladaptation through climate smart agriculture and restoration of in...
Vietnam must improve its ability to control invasive alien species (IAS), participants said at a workshop in Hanoi on November 19. IAS refers to animals or plants introduced accidentally or deliberately into a new environment that pose serious...
A seminar on up-to-date technology in natural disaster risk reduction and adaptation was jointly organized on November 20 by the Embassy of Sweden and the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment in Ho Chi Minh City. The event is part of...
Climate change may cause damages worth more than 10% of gross domestic product (GDP) of Vietnam in 2100, said Dr. Leocadio Sebastian, Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) regional program leader for Southeast Asia. Natural disasters...
