Vaccine-resistant mutation of H5N1 bird flu virus strain has been confirmed in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh while vaccinated fowls fell sick in central Vietnam. Ngo Duc Thanh, director of Tra Vinh animal health department, said the kinds of...
Vietnam’s doctors successfully had a multi-organ transplant operation on March 3, marking the first case of this kind so far. The operation which took 13 hours was carried out by a group of more than 150 medical staffs from the Military Medical...
Authorities in Vietnam’s southern metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City have asked the World Bank (WB) to lend it $450 million to a project to improve water and environment for 1.2 million inhabitants in Nhieu Loc-Thi Nghe canal. The funding is expected to...
Hanoi’s Department of Architecture Planning on March 6 announced a detail plan for the construction of a concentrated waste treatment zone, which is part of efforts to concretize the Hanoi Construction Master Plan to 2030 with a vision to 2050...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training disbursed an estimated VND26 billion ($1.24 million) of state funding for its projects in February, down 36.6% from January, said the government’s General Statistics Office (GSO). In the first two months...
One died and another got injured as a warhead exploded in Vietnam’s central province of Phu Yen on Feb 23. The victims include Y Kun, 15, and K’pa Y Dung, 14, the Nguoi Lao Dong newspaper reported on Feb 24. The incident happened when the two boys...
The 319 Corporation, one of units under the Ministry of National Defense, has conducted landmine clearance on an area of 8,117 hectares in 2013, the statistics was released at a meeting on Feb 20. The figure fell 23% from a year earlier, the...
Foreign non-governmental organizations (NGO) have funded roughly $60 million for landmine clearance projects in Vietnam over the past decade, Nguyen Dang Tuan, deputy director of Technology Centre for Bomb and Mine Disposal (BOMICEN) said at a...
Mekong Delta provinces will strive to help more than 44,000 households escape poverty this year, bringing the region’s poverty rate down to 6 percent from 7.2 percent at the end of 2013. Toward this goal, policies will be adopted to facilitate the...
Vietnam News Agency (VNA) and the Government’s Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs on February 28 signed an agreement on further boosting their mutual collaboration program in the 2014-2018 period. Addressing the signing ceremony, VNA General...
