The Japanese government is planning to set up a taskforce to promote the export of medical technologies and services to five Mekong basin countries including Vietnam. The plan is part of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic growth strategy, under...
Vietnam’s healthcare and social work sectors remain unattractive to foreign firms, drawing in foreign direct investment (FDI) worth only $89.7 million in eight projects between January and November, according to data from the Ministry of Planning...
Hanoi has installed 10,000 water treatment units and will incorporate 5,000 more at the end of this year in the city’s four suburban districts of Ung Hoa, Phu Xuyen, Thuong Tin and Thanh Oai. According to the city’s Centre for Clean Water and Rural...
Use of harmful food additives in food processing will from now on face very harsh penalties as per a new decree passed by the government effective from December 31, 2013. As per the new decree, maximum penalty for administrative violation against...
The prime minister has approved two projects on adapting to climate change impacts in the Mekong Delta region using $34-million loans from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). The projects with $17 million...
Vietnam has lost an estimated VND2.8 trillion ($132.7 million) to natural disasters in November, compared to VND3.83 trillion in Nov 2012, the government’s General Statistics Office (GSO) said in its report. Among disasters-hit localities, the...
New models for higher education that could change the face of universities in the future were discussed at a Global Education Dialogue 2013 in HCM City on November 26-27. Saad Rizvi, executive director at Pearson, and co-author of the recently...
Vietnam should soon solve the big problems in compiling textbooks to further improve the national education quality, said senior Professor Hoang Tuy. Although the country has spent trillions of dong on textbook reforms for years, the quality of the...
Vietnam News Agency (VNA)’s Fund for Agent Orange (AO) Pain on November 20 handed over a VND30-million ($1,400) house to an AO victim in the southern province of Binh Thuan. The house is built for Nguyen Van No, in Tuy Phong district, who suffered...
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...
