Vietnam will start construction of the Ben Luc-Long Thanh expressway, funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in December, the project management unit said. The 58-kilometer Ben Luc-Long...
Emergency medical service satisfies only 1% of the demand from local people in Ho Chi Minh City, the most populous city of Vietnam, said a doctor from the city-based Trung Vuong Emergency Hospital. People complain that the urgent medical services...
Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh has agreed in principle to allow the Ministry of Health to continue increasing medical fees at state-owned hospitals nationwide after the last price hike last August. Under the roadmap for a hospital fee...
More than 270 businesses from 30 countries and territories worldwide will attend an international exhibition on water supply and drainage, water filter technologies and wastewater treatment (Vietwater 2013) in Ho Chi Minh City on Oct 16-18. The...
Climate change is estimated to cost Vietnam 10% to 11% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), threatening the country’s sustainable development, Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai said at a meeting in Hanoi. At the third national forum on...
A number of Japanese companies have joined a conference on industrial wastewater treatment in Vietnam’s southern province of Dong Nai to share experience in the field on Oct 15. At the meeting held by the Kansai Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry...
The U.S. Mission in Vietnam is looking for qualified candidates to nominate for the 2014 Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) Program, which will place two Vietnamese teaching assistants in Vietnamese language courses at U.S....
The Education U.K. Exhibition 2013 is scheduled to take place in three Vietnamese cities of Hanoi, Danang and Ho Chi Minh City starting Saturday [Oct 19]. The education fairs held by the British Council in Hanoi on Oct 19, in HCM City on Oct 20 and...
Nearly 1,000 poor people, mostly from Raglai and Ede ethnic communities in the mountainous district of Khanh Vinh in the central Khanh Hoa province, were given free health check-ups, treatment and medicine on October 9. The activity was carried out...
The poverty rate among Hanoian blind people has been dropped to 17.5% as the visually-impaired people in the city have received loans, job training and job offers from the local authority in recent times. The city has given loans worth over VND14...
