Bill Gates plans to set up a $50-million charity fund aimed at improving health services in Vietnam. The online Thoi Bao Kinh Te Vietnam newspaper cited a well-known journalist as saying that the billionaire has started carrying out a charity...
The World Bank (WB) will definitely say no to any loans asked by the Vietnamese government for the preparations for the 18th Asian Games (ASIAD), which Vietnam plans to host in 2019, Victoria Kwakwa, WB’s country director for Vietnam, said at a...
The health ministry plans to inspect private health clinics and drugstores in five major cities this year after many violations were uncovered during last year’s inspections. In 2013, 197 private health clinics and 66 private drugstores were...
Doctors at Hanoi-based Central Pediatrics Hospital have urged the Ministry of Health to announce a measles outbreak after the disease spread to 59 out of Vietnam’s 63 cities and provinces and claimed 25 lives, but the ministry has refused. Up to 3,...
Canada’s Triple Eye Infrastructure Corp has got a license to set up a joint venture with Vietnam’s Dai An JSC Co. to build an international-standard hospital at an estimated cost of $225 million in the northern province of Hai Duong. The joint...
Ho Chi Minh City will soon develop 30 lakes in suburban areas and hundreds of others in inner-city areas to hold rainwater in a move to effectively control severe floods. Do Tan Long, head of the Irrigation Management Office of the HCM City Steering...
Save the Mekong Coalition, an environmental group, has sent a letter to government leaders of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, calling for the cancellation of hydropower dams on the Lower Mekong mainstream. In its letter, the group expressed...
A contest titled “Teenagers with wildlife protection” was launched in Hanoi on April 10 as part of activities marking International Day for Biological Diversity (May 22). The contest aims to encourage young people to engage in wildlife conservation...
Russia’s government will provide Vietnamese students with 70 university scholarships in atomic energy in 2014, Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training informed. The scholarships will cover tuition, accommodation, round-trip airfare, visa fee,...
Construction of the second school for children on Truong Sa archipelago was completed as part of the second phase of the Program “For beloved Truong Sa students”. The school, covering 383 square meters on Sinh Ton island, cost nearly 12.5 billion...
