The Australian Consulate General in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City has launched the Direct Aid Program (DAP) within a non-refundable aid worth AUD141.3 million ($131.3 million) for Vietnam in the 2014-2015 fiscal year. DAP, which includes governmental...
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...
Veterinary authorities have reported two fresh outbreaks of the highly pathogenic H5N6 bird flu in the northern provinces of Lang Son and Ha Tinh for the first time in Vietnam. The outbreaks occurred in a herd of chickens in Lang Son’s Trang Dinh...
Vietnamese health experts have examined three students who recently came to Vietnam from their homeland Nigeria and confirmed that they had not been infected with the deadly Ebola virus that has killed over 1,000 people in West Africa, the...
Police in Vietnam’s capital Hanoi have tracked down and questioned two women who spread a canard on Facebook that a Vietnamese person had contracted the deadly Ebola virus, which has been scotched by local health authorities. The two women have been...
The World Health Organization (WHO) will provide technical support to Vietnam in testing the Ebola virus, which is a deadly virus claiming more than 1,000 deaths in four Western African so far this year. The technical support is at the proposal of...
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on Aug. 9 issued an urgent telegraph requesting the Ministry of Health (MoH) and other ministries and agencies to take preventative measures to minimize the risk of the Ebola virus entering Vietnam. No Ebola case has...
Over the last 3 days, some of Danang’s districts, including Hai Chau, Thanh Khe and Lien Chieu, have been suffering a shortage of tap water. According to the Danang Water Supply Company (DAWACO), the reservoir of the Bung River Hydropower Plant No 4...
Vietnam is one of the 13 countries that have tigers in the wild, yet it is facing an urgent challenge in protecting the species, which is being pushed to the brink of extinction due to economic and social pressures. A 2011 survey by the Institute of...
Several photos of the Sao La, one of the rarest and most threatened mammals on the planet, were made public in Dong Hoi City, the central province of Quang Binh on August 13 by the Viet Nature Conservation Centre and the Quang Binh provincial...
