Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a $302 million project on developing urban areas in the country’s northern region. The project with 83% from the World Bank (WB) will focus on upgrading infrastructure in seven northern provinces...
The Japanese Government will provide $455,612 in non-refundable aid to the second phase of a maternal and infant healthcare project in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien. Under a contract signed in Hanoi on February 10, funding will be...
Measles is reportedly spreading to seven provinces and cities across Vietnam after the outbreak recorded in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi, which has killed two babies so far. The outbreaks were recorded after more than 240 cases have been found in...
The H5N1 bird flu has affected at least six northern and central provinces, with tens of thousands of chickens having contracted the disease, many birds have been incinerated. On Tuesday afternoon, concerned agencies in Duc Pho District, Quang Ngai...
Vietnam is forecast to continue being battered by extreme weather this year after a range of unusual weather phenomena appeared recently. “We’d rarely seen dense frequency of storms and tropical low-pressure systems attacked the country like last...
A recent study has revealed the economic benefits of wastewater collection and treatment systems far surpass their investment costs. The German-Vietnamese Development Cooperation’s Wastewater Management Program (WMP) conducted the study in...
A large number of Vietnam’s people have returned to poverty in the 2005-2012 period due to natural calamities, the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs said in a report. The poverty rate is normally high in remote areas and regions...
Affected by a cold front that is raging in northern Vietnam, the Mau Son mountain area in Lang Son Province has been experiencing a chill at minus 1-2 degrees Celsius since Thursday afternoon, with snow covering the entire area, including the Mau...
Universities complain that the requirement by the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) on having one PhD and three masters for every training major is unfeasible in the Vietnamese conditions. MOET has forced universities to stop 207 training...
Vietnam will host the 46th International Chemistry Olympiad (ICHO 2014) on July 20-29 with the participation of 300 students from 80 countries and territories. The official exam questions for both the theoretical and practical sessions are being...
