State-owned Vietnam Expressway Corp. (VEC) will start construction of the Ben Luc-Long Thanh expressway, funded by the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in July, said Deputy General Director Pham...
The French Development Agency (AFD) has pledged to provide over EUR1.5 billion for development projects in Vietnam over the last 20 years, making the country the second largest partner of AFD globally, said AFD Country Director Rémi Genevey. ...
Up to 700 cardiologists and geriatricians from Vietnam, the U.S., the U.K., Italy and Japan have joined a two-day international conference on the treatment of cardiovascular diseases in the central province of Phu Yen. The experts delivered 50...
Hattori & Dreams Partners Ltd. Co., run by Japanese ophthalmologist Tadashi Hattori and partners, has received a license from authorities of Hanoi to invest $3 million in setting up an ophthalmology hospital in the capital city of Vietnam. The...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health is considering adding three new vaccines to prevent bacterial pneumonia and rotavirus-inspired diarrhea in young children and HPV-related cervical cancers in girls to the government’s subsidized national program. The...
More than 3,100 people in Vietnam, many of them women, have been found to be infected with HIV so far this year, according to the National Commission on AIDS, Drugs and Prostitution Prevention. The proportion of women among the infected increased...
The Vietnam Tobacco Association (VTA) has asked the government to delay raising the excise tax on tobacco until smuggling is “considerably” reduced, news website VnEconomy reported on Wednesday. The association made its recommendation after both the...
More than 200 households are continuing to struggle with water shortages in a Ghenh Rang Ward fishing village in central coastal Binh Dinh Province.The shortage has extended into a second month and began when three local wells ran out of water,...
As many as 70,000 households in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi are living without fresh water after the water pipeline from Da River broke again on June 17, the seventh time since the system put into operation in 2008. Following the previous times...
Eight species of flora enlisted in Vietnam’s Red Book are being preserved at the Tram Chim National Park in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap, which enhances the ecological balance and the rehabilitation of regional species that are on the...
