The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources has awarded the 2013 Vietnam Environmental Award to the Nung ethnic community in the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang for their solutions to protect, use rationally and develop natural...
Close to 4,000 local ethnic minority people in Lo Pang and Kon Thup communes in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai are using clean water and managing, by themselves, the water resource that came up from a JICA- funded project. Meanwhile,...
The Mekong Delta, the largest growing areas of rice, aquaculture and fruits in Vietnam, will carry out a $210 million irrigation project, $160 million will come from the World Bank on the form of official development assistance. The project targets...
The German Ministry of Economic Co-operation and Development has pledged to provide a EUR71.2 million loan to help Vietnam carry out development projects to become an industrialized country. The ministry made the statement at a development...
The Ministry of Health (MoH) has asked the Ministry of Public Security to conduct an investigation into the post-vaccination deaths of three newborn babies in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Tri. In an urgent official letter Health Minister...
The Ministry of Health has uncovered many violations in the technical vaccination process, vaccine preservation and safety regulations after a recent inoculation inspection in 30 provinces and cities across Vietnam. The infractions included no...
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will help Hanoi-based Bach Mai hospital and its two satellite hospitals promote radiology through telemedicine in a move to better serve local residents. This is part of the Minutes of Meeting on the...
Vietnam is estimated to have disbursed VND410 billion ($19.34 million) worth of state funds for health projects in the first seven months of this year, meeting 47.5% of the year’s target. The figure represented an on-year fall of 28.6%, the...
The Belgian government has funded EUR25 million to help carry out a project on water management and urban development amid climate change in three central provinces of Vietnam. The project, which will be carried out in six years, aims to raise...
Vietnam’s Thai Binh Trading Corporation has pledged an aid package worth $150,000 to help Cuban people to surmount the consequences caused by Hurricane Sandy. A ceremony to present the gift in a symbolic manner was organized in Havana July 30. The...
