Sai Gon Giai Phong newspaper last week offered 10 computer sets and 500 notebooks to Primary School Loc Chau and 1,000 notebooks to good students in Junior High School Luong The Vinh in the highlands province of Lam Dong. Total cost of gifts is...
Images captured by ethnic minority children are featured in I Tell You My Stories, a photo book that will be released today. The photographs were selected from thousands taken by children from ethnic Mong, Cham, Raglai and Mo Nong groups in the...
Frequent conflicts between wild elephants in the southern province of Dong Nai and local residents have increased the need for urgent protection of the endangered mammal. Since 2009, the conflicts have killed one local residents and injured tow,...
The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism has been preparing an annual report on the country’s tourism in 2013 with the assistance from the EU-funded Environmentally and Socially Responsible Tourism Capacity Development (ESRT) Project. The...
Vietnam has kick-started a $250 million program using financial support from the World Bank (WB) to develop seven cities in the northern mountainous region – where there is the highest concentration of extreme poverty in the country. The Results-...
According to the Son La provincial Department of Labor, War-Invalids and Social Affairs, about 12,500 children in the province are at risk of HIV/AIDS infection. The province has now found 156 children infected with the disease. More than 150 HIV/...
The Central Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion has opened Vietnam’s first free stem cell bank which gathers and stores donations of umbilical cords for the purposes of treating blood conditions and diseases. Doctor Nguyen Anh Tri, head of...
Vietnam must have action plans against the abuse of salt in eating habit as an effort to limit the rate of cardiac diseases which cause 33% of deaths in the country per year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a press release on Sept 29....
As much as 5.42% of the total population, suffers from diabetes, according to a study conducted with more than 11,000 respondents between the age of 30-69 as part of the 2012 National Diabetes Prevention Project. The non-communicable disease is...
Mental health is crucial, since it is directly linked to the quality of life, the happiness of families, social security and the prosperity of the nation, Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan has said. In a meeting to commemorate World Mental Health Day (...
