President Truong Tan Sang met with 78 outstanding ethnic minority students who attended a ceremony on Saturday honoring their achievements in the past academic year. President Sang said that the visit to the capital gave students the chance to...
Provincial authorities and the Centre for Vietnamese Disabled Children paid for 150 disabled ethnic minority children's surgeries in the northern mountainous province of Son La between November 3 and 10. The provincial Department of Labour, War...
The World Bank (WB) is planning to lend about $6 billion to Vietnam to help the country to boost the medium-term socio-economic development in the 2015-2017 period, state-run Vietnam Investment Review reported on Nov 3. The bank will finance Vietnam...
Vietnam has launched a $15 million program on HIV prevention until 2019 with financial support from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The Healthy Markets program aims to encourage the investment of local private sector and...
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has signed an agreement to help Vietnam’s Ministry of Transport to carry out a project to enhance capacity in road maintenance. The Project for Capacity Enhancement in Road Maintenance, which began...
At least one million poor and disadvantaged people who have difficulty in accessing medical services in remote areas are being given free medical check-ups and treatment during a campaign on humanitarian medical care for communities in 2014. The...
Vietnam will tighten control over compulsory rehabilitation for drug users to avoid social insecurity, officials said at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on Nov 3. Compulsory treatment will enable local authorities to better...
Ho Chi Minh City Pasteur Institute and France’s Sanofi Pasteur on Nov 3 announced the results of a dengue vaccination trial in five Asian countries, including Vietnam, with the efficacy reported in 56.5% of dengue-infected cases. The vaccination...
The capital city of Hanoi is striving to better its policies on gender equality, and intensify inspections to stop gender selection in an effort to reduce the current high sex ratio at birth. According to the municipal Department of Population and...
Hanoi People's Committee has urged authorities to increase supervision over the operation of private health clinics. Municipal health authorities recently closed down about 110 clinics after inspections revealed many medical violations. Many...
