The northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang has decided to invest VND580 billion ($27.26 million) to boost socio-economic development in Lam Binh, one of its poorest districts, for the 2013-2017 period. Of the total investment, VND346.5 billion...
Mekong Plus, Belgium’s community development organization, has launched a 10,000km cycling program to raise fund for poor people in Vietnam. Going through five countries in three continents with 16 stages, the Brussels-Saigon journey will start in...
Volunteer doctors are giving free health checkups and surgery to 160 children with disabilities from poor ethnic minority families in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang from June 18-24. The voluntary programme, under the auspices of the...
The Ethnic Board of southern Tra Vinh province will build 44 crematoriums to replace outdated ones used by the Khmer people in the region. Cremation of the dead is customary among the Khmer ethnic community in the region, who are mostly followers of...
Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has approved a sustainable urban transport project for Metro Route No. 3 in Hanoi funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Clean Technology Fund (CTF). The project costs $59 million, financed by...
The third international conference on cooperation between Vietnam and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) will take place in Hanoi from November 28-29. The conference is scheduled to assess the outcomes of cooperation over the last decade and...
Vietnam records more than 20,000 new patients of lung cancer and 17,000 related deaths each year, Nguyen Viet Nhung, director of the Central Lung Hospital said at a meeting in Hanoi on Nov 18. Mr. Nhung attributed the rising number of lung cancer...
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has granted 4,000 sets of personal protective equipment to help Vietnamese animal health workers raise capacity in preventing possible animal diseases, according to the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi. The...
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung Nov 21 said that Vietnam will start construction of five large-scale hospitals in the capital city of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to ease the current severe overload. The construction of the hospitals, with a total 4,...
Vietnam needs an estimated VND3 trillion ($142.2 million) to upgrade 317 water reservoirs in a move to ensure the safety of people during the flooding season, said Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat. Mr. Phat released the...
