Vietnam has affirmed its policy of ensuring, protecting and promoting the legitimate rights of ethnic minority groups in all aspects, based on the principle of equality and solidarity for the common progress of all ethnic communities. Speaking at a...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) held a conference in Hanoi on March 18 to assess the pace of a rural infrastructure project in northern mountainous provinces in 2013. Reports at the conference...
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has positively contributed to humanitarian activities in Vietnam since it established its representative office in the country in 1991. Chairman of the Vietnam Red Cross (...
The number of storms and tropical low pressures the East Sea this year to drop to nine or ten, lower than the annual average, according to Vietnam’s National Center for Hydro-meteorological Forecast. The center is also forecasting the number of...
The Vietnamese prime minister has approved a project to upgrade more than 70 traditional medicine hospitals across the country from now till 2020, as part of efforts to reduce the overloading at public hospitals. The project aims to deliver a...
Germany’s B. Braun Melsungen AG, one of the world’s top manufacturers and suppliers of health and pharmaceutical products, plans to set up a kidney dialysis center in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi. The center will be a foundation for B. Braun to...
It is necessary to ensure a sufficiency of medicine for preventing and treating tuberculosis (TB) at any cost, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has said. The Deputy PM made the remark at a conference in Hanoi on March 21 to promote the...
A national-level meeting will be held in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau on March 21 as part of a program recognizing 2014 World Water Day. Organized by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, the Ministry of Industry and...
Education for Nature – Vietnam (ENV) has just announced that in the first months of 2014, the number of young people participating in its wildlife protection volunteer networks has increased dramatically. In February 2014 alone, ENV admitted over 4,...
Six non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Vietnam are carrying out four UK-funded projects this year in a joint effort to manage and use forest resources in a sustainable manner, according to the People and Nature Reconciliation (PanNature). The...
