Vietnam has started conducting a poverty reduction project in the Central Highlands costing $165 million with funding from the World Bank. The five-year project is aimed at raising the living standards in 130 communes of six provinces including Dak...
The Vietnamese government has approved the loan portfolio of the Microfinance Development Program (MDP) – subprogram 2, under which the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will finance $50 million. The subprogram aims to help the government build a more...
Vietnam has made great strides in expanding social health insurance coverage, now covering more than half of its population, the World Bank (WB) said in its report launched in Hanoi on September 17. Health insurance dialogue for people with...
Vietnam needs to reverse the trend of becoming an “aged” population, a process which was first recognised in 2011. The country’s population is forecast to be “aged” by 2028-2031, which is sooner than in many developed countries, Deputy Head of the...
Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), the Germany Development Cooperation Agency (GIZ) and the Germany Federation Labor Agency (BA) in collaboration with the German Federal Employment Agency (ZAV) on Sept 15 launched the...
The Prime Minister has asked all provinces and cities nation-wide to ensure that the measles and rubella vaccination campaign covers at least 95% of the children under 14. The six-month-long campaign, launched recently by the Health Ministry, aims...
The European Union (EU) will sign a major cooperation program worth EUR114 million in October or November to help the Vietnamese government improve the quality of healthcare services in the poorest provinces in the 2015-2017 period. The funding,...
A film that warns about the impact of climate change on humans will be screened at the Mill Valley Film Festival (MVFF) in the U.S. Water-2030, directed by Nguyen Vo Nghiem Minh, is listed in the category of World Cinema, and will be screened on...
The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment (MONRE) recently released the results of a survey on flash flood zoning and landslide mapping in the mountainous provinces of Vietnam. According to Le Quoc Hung, deputy head of the Geoscience and...
The National Assembly and Government need to review and adopt legal regulations to mitigate air pollution, a major contributor to the greenhouse effect. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment released its 2013 National Environment Report...
