More than 6,000 young doctors from around the country will take part in a massive medical screening campaign for poor and elderly people in all 63 provinces and cities on May 18. The young doctors, volunteering to assist with community health...
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) on May 15 launched a project to strengthen livelihoods and resilience to climate change of poor people in the Mekong Delta provinces of Ben Tre and Tra Vinh. The organization will provide $...
The Ministry of Education and Training has instructed its affiliated departments to continue a program to give old textbooks for free to poor students in disadvantaged areas. With the 2014-2015 academic year set to end soon, the ministry wants them...
Representatives from the German state of Hessen on May 13 presented scholarships to ethnic minority students in the northwestern mountainous province of Dien Bien. The 25 selected have all received remarkable academic results from the Economic and...
The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has called for more efforts to improve the quality of semi-boarding schools for ethnic students and attract more funding from the private sector. Speaking at a national conference yesterday assessing the...
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked agencies to quicken the site clearance for a $200 million waterway transport project in northern Vietnam funded by the World Bank (WB). The project was kicked off in 2011 and was scheduled to be completed in...
A two-day national conference on pediatrics in Hue city, the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, has reviewed the care for children in Vietnam and updated advances in the field. The 21st event, opened on May 16, brought together over 200 scientists...
Since January 2014, as many as 9,011 people have been infected by dengue fever in 42 provinces and cities across from the country, including five fatal cases, according to the Health Ministry. Since January 2014, as many as 9,011 people have been...
Vabiotech, under Vietnam’s National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE), has almost succeeded in researching and producing vaccines against EV71-associated hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD), a contagious viral illness that affects mostly...
Vietnam has yet to apply paternity leave to encourage involvement of fathers around childbirth though the country has implemented long maternity leave on a par with the developed countries, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said in a report...
