The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) pledges to fund an additional $239 million for Vietnam in the next five years, the agency said in a press release on Jan 8. The amount would focus on preventing bird flu and HIV/AIDS; supporting...
The Canadian fund Grand Challenges Canada (GCC) on Jan 10 announced a primary CAD7.7 million CAD ($7.2 million) aid to 22 mental healthcare projects worldwide, including one in Vietnam. Funded by the Canadian government, GCC seeks affordable...
Hanoi will pour VND120 billion ($5.7 million) into upgrading its medical facilities in 2014 in order to become the country’s healthcare hub by 2020. The plan was outlined at a January 9 conference reviewing the implementation of National Criteria on...
Vietnam’s chicken farms have been hurt as substandard and smuggled Chinese chickens are flooding the local markets, state media reported. Due to a high supply of China-sourced chickens, local farmers couldn’t sell their stock. Prices of locally-...
Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi plans to invest roughly VND42 trillion ($2 billion) including 50% from the official development assistance (ODA) in upgrading waste treatment system until 2020. The money would enable the municipal government to...
Vietnam is facing a high risk of an A/H7N9 outbreak after Guangdong province of its neighbor China recorded five infections, said Tran Dac Phu, head of the Preventive Medicine Department under the Ministry of Health. Mr. Phu attributed cold weather...
The U.S. Embassy in Vietnam has announced the Fulbright Vietnamese Student Scholarship Program. The scholarship will cover tuition and fees, monthly stipend, round-trip airfare to the United States and health insurance. Established in 1946 and...
Eight young Vietnamese scientists will attend the second Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS) themed “Advancing Science, Creating Technologies for a Better World”, taking place in Singapore from January 19-21. The conference, organised by the...
Vietnam needs to make more efforts to deal with bomb and mine consequences in the coming years as the undiscovered volume forecast to hit thousands tons. Statistics showed in 2002 that the country remained 9,284 out of 10,511 communes suffer...
The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) will intensify its “Day for the Poor” campaign and monitor the implementation of poverty reduction projects to improve their efficiency. VFF Central Committee President Nguyen Thien Nhan made the commitment at a...
