The European Union (EU) and Germany’s Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) have co-provided EUR425,000 to help improve the governance capacity of agencies and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in three cities of Vietnam. The project will be implemented...
The prime minister has approved a project on boosting social assistance system in Vietnam using loans from the International Development Association (IDA), an arm of the World Bank (WB). The project costing $62.5 million, include $60 million from...
Up to a fifth of Vietnamese people have mental illness due to pressures related to work and study, according to data by the Hanoi-based Central Psychiatric Hospital released five years ago. The high rate of various mental disorders is mainly...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has given a nod to plans to build four new hospitals in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh Cities in a move to ease the current severe overload, according to the PM’s directive.The information was released at a recent...
Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi will need an estimated VND107 trillion ($5.05 billion) for solid waste treatment in the 2013-2020 period, a vision to 2030, under a plan on solid waste treatment. Funding is likely to come from the state budget,...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism signed a memorandum of understanding to renew a cooperation agreement on natural disaster management by 2016 at a...
The Vietnamese government is calling for support from the World Bank (WB) to build a strategy for climate change adaptation in the Mekong Delta region, the country’s rice bowl, said Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Hoang Van...
Vietnam is listed in the top ten nations with the worst air pollution level in the world, Deputy Head of the Vietnam Environment Administration under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment Hoang Duong Tung quoted an assessment of foreign...
The Ministry of Education and Training has urged educational departments and local authorities to urgently inspect operations of all private pre-schools nationwide to assure the safety of children. The move came after a number of scandals concerning...
Education experts have proposed significant changes across the board for Vietnamese education, including ending the university entrance exams and lowering the number of subjects on the school curriculum. On September 19, talking about the education...
