Hundreds of farmer households in the southern province of Kien Giang have escaped poverty thanks to a project that provides them with cows and loans for animal husbandry. Funded by Heifer Vietnam, a U.S. humanitarian organization, and the provincial...
The central province of Khanh Hoa will cover all health insurance costs for local ethnic minority people who have not benefitted from existing support programs in this field, the provincial People’s Council decided at its session on July 9....
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a $33.7 million project to eradicate poverty based on promoting production in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang. The project’s funding consists of $20 millio in ODA provided by the...
A World Bank-loaned poverty reduction project is targeting to benefit as many as 540,000 needy local people in the Central Highlands and the central coastal area. The 165 million USD project aims to reinforce food security, improve infrastructure,...
Nhat Tan Bridge in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi, which uses the funding of the Japanese government, is expected to open to traffic later this year, said Nguyen Thanh Van, general director of the Project Management Unit No. 85. To date, 96.4% of...
The U.S. Mission to Vietnam has announced the launch of a Small Grants Program to celebrate 20 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Through this program, Vietnamese non-governmental organizations, not-for-profit organizations,...
The State of the World's Midwifery 2014: "A Universal Pathway. A Woman's Right to Heath" launched in Hanoi by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Vietnam, together with the Ministry of Health (MOH), reveals that having midwives at the...
Vietnamese authorities have called on the government to invest more in sex education and reproductive healthcare in a bid to curb the rising pregnancy rate among teenagers. The investment would help reduce abortion cases in young adults, Dr Nguyen...
A two-month-old baby girl in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap died on early July 8 after having a five-in-one Quinvaxem vaccine shot, marking the fourth death in Vietnam allegedly linked to the popular vaccine since the beginning of 2014....
Vietnam will not face shortage of vaccines for children any more as more than 300,000 doses of 5-in-1, 6-in-1 and chickenpox vaccines are scheduled to be delivered from now to September. Of the sum, two local companies will import 62,000 doses of 5-...
