More than 200 artisans of ethnic minorities across the central province of Quang Ngai presented the best of their traditional culture through musical instrument and singing performances at a recent festival in Son Tay district. The event, the second...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Transport has proposed the government allow it to carry out a VND14.8 trillion ($704 million) transport project under the build-operate-transfer (BOT) instead of using loans from the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The ministry...
Vietnam has launched the Social Assistance System Strengthening Project costing total $62 million funded by the World Bank (WB). The project receives up to 96.7% of funding from the WB and aims to develop and pilot innovations in management and...
The U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on public procurements with the Public Procurement Agency (PPA) of Vietnam. The country partnership, which is established under the Global Procurement...
The Ministry of Health (MoH) has asked cities and provinces to be on high alert of the Ebola virus disease (EVD), which is spreading in a number of African countries, though no EVD patient has been recorded in Vietnam to date. Ebola – passed on...
People from West African countries affected by the Ebola outbreak will have to sign a medical declaration before entering Vietnam from August 15. Any person suspected of having come into contact with the virus will be stopped at airports or border...
The rate of antibiotic resistance among Vietnamese people has been rising due to the inappropriate use of over-the-counter antibiotics in treatment of anti-bacterial contamination in the country. No prescription was involved in 88% of antibiotics...
Vietnam’s health authorities are trying to increase the rate of infants breast-bred during the first six months of their lives in Vietnam, which is now only 19.6% or the lowest level in Southeast Asia. Nemat Hajeebhoy, director of the Alive &...
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on August 9 chaired an urgent meeting with the Ministry of Health (MoH) and other relevant agencies to institute preventative measures to minimize the risk of the Ebola virus entering Vietnam. Vietnam issues highest...
Hundreds of people in Vietnam’s Central Highland province of Gia Lai are living in peril after a hydropower plant dam broke on Aug 1, damaging hundreds of hectares of crops. The dam of the 5.5-MW Ia Krel hydropower plant suddenly collapsed for the...
