General News

  • Ho Chi Minh City has intensified various activities to target 99% of newborn babies of HIV-infected pregnant mothers with ARV treatment to be enjoyed preventive treatment. The treatment is designed to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission in 2014...
    Monday, 16th June, 2014
  • Ho Chi Minh City has intensified various activities to target 99% of newborn babies of HIV-infected pregnant mothers with ARV treatment to be enjoyed preventive treatment. The treatment is designed to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission in 2014...
    Monday, 16th June, 2014
  • Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has emphasized the need to enhance education and communication work to raise public awareness of HIV/AIDS, drugs and prostitution prevention and control. This is extremely difficult work, especially with the State...
    Monday, 16th June, 2014
  • Vietnam’s pharmaceutical market is expected to have a compound annual growth rate of 15.4% in the next six years to reach a net worth of $8 billion by 2020 compared to the current $3.3 billion. The average drug expense per capita will rise to $40.8...
    Monday, 16th June, 2014
  • Vietnam will spend over VND4.35 trillion ($210 million) on upgrading irrigation systems in the Mekong Delta, the largest growing areas of rice, fisheries and fruits in the country, said the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. Of the...
    Monday, 16th June, 2014
  • As many as 99 new species have been found in Vietnam, according to a World Wildlife Fund report. The report titled “Nature’s Mysterious Mekong” launched on World Environment Day last week showed a total of 367 new species had been discovered in the...
    Monday, 16th June, 2014
  • The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) has signed a deal to finance EUR4 million ($5.4 million) for Vietnam to conduct a climate change response project until 2018. The Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA)...
    Monday, 16th June, 2014
  • Five Vietnamese students walked away with honors at the 13th Russian Olympiad which was wrapped up in Moscow on June 11. First prize in public speaking went to Nguyen Thi Minh Nguyet, an 11th grader from Nam Dinh-based Le Hong Phong high school. She...
    Monday, 16th June, 2014
  • The Government encourages individuals and organizations to attend in schoolbook compilation on the basic of the nationwide general education program approved by the Ministry of Education and Training. It is part of an action plan issued by the...
    Monday, 16th June, 2014
  • Ever since the war, Quang Tri Province's poor have made a dangerous living selling the unexploded remains of the US's mammoth bombing campaign, but a new program gives them a safer option – planting fungi. “Growing mushrooms suits the disabled...
    Monday, 9th June, 2014