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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
Government-enacted credit policies, dedicated to local poor households, have enabled around 10 million families nationwide to access preferential loans, allowing 2.4 million of them to escape from poverty. The outcomes were highlighted in a report...
Many ethnic residents in Bao Lam District of northern Cao Bang Province, have been able to cultivate wet-rice in place of maize, as part of the district's poverty alleviation efforts. The district, one of the poorest of Cao Bang, has a population of...
