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...
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has pledged to assist Vietnam’s central city of Danang in developing public-private partnership (PPP) projects, said Oyama Tomohide, JICA official in charge of Private Sector Investment Finance (PSIF...
The World Bank has provided more than $382 million for a project to improve infrastructure and living conditions for low-income people in four Vietnamese provinces and cities. At a review meeting in Can Tho on May 30, a WB representative reported...
Many adults and children in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam have a limited understanding of the risks of sexual abuse. This startling fact is revealed in a new report: “Sex, Abuse and Childhood: A study about knowledge, attitudes and practices...
June has been designated as the action month for mother-to-child HIV transmission prevention in 2014. Over the month, Hanoi will focus on promoting communication activities in various ways to increase the number of 14 to 49 year old women who have...
A number of dangerous infectious diseases, including the Middle East respiratory syndrome corona virus (MERS-CoV), are likely to infect Vietnamese people, said a senior official of the Ministry Health. There is considerable threat of epidemics...
The HCM City People’s Committee has told local district authorities to take steps to prevent saline-water intrusion and drought for this year's crops in suburban areas. Under the order, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development will...
Vietnam is forecast to experience 10-12 storms and tropical low pressure areas in the East Sea in 2014, unchanged from the annual average, said the Ministry of National Resources and Environment (MoNRE). The ministry expects the number of storms and...
The number of Vietnamese students studying in the U.S. for the 2012-2013 school year was 16,000, ranking Vietnam the 8th among the countries for the highest number of students there, the U.S. Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City said. The figure...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved the establishment of Fulbright University Vietnam (FUV), the first non-profit foreign-invested university in the Southeast Asian country. Initiated by the U.S.-based Trust for University...
