The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has helped more than 5,000 people in Vietnam get access to HIV-related legal assistance services over the past five years, according to a report at a meeting in Hanoi Aug 14 to review the...
The International Labor Organization (ILO) and Vietnam’s Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) co-organized a seminar on August 14 to seek measures to better implement the ILO-Vietnam Decent Work Country Program (DWCP) in the...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has allowed agencies to negotiate with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on a $95 million loan for the Secondary Cities Development Project, the An Ninh Thu Do newspaper reported on Aug 16. An association, led...
Vietnamese health authorities have warned of rising number of malaria infections from African guest workers as 90 Vietnamese laborers have contracted with the disease in the past three months after returning from several African countries. The...
Vietnam has raised warning on the rising risk of infection and emerging diseases recurrence due to climate change and abnormal weather conditions in recent years, said the Department of Preventive Medicine and Environment under the Ministry of...
Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi will build 39 plants for common wastewater treatment in urban centers from now until 2030 in a move to ease environmental pollution. The wastewater treatment plants, part the city’s newly-approved water drainage...
Mangkhut, the sixth tropical storm hitting Vietnam this year, caused a total loss of VND326 billion ($15.37 million) to several northern and central provinces after making landfall on Aug 7. Among storm-hit localities, the central province of Thanh...
Ho Chi Minh City will shut down 24 garbage collection points by Sept as they are seriously polluting the living environment of local residents, vice chairman of the municipal People’s Committee of City Nguyen Huu Tin said at a recent meeting. The...
Southern provinces are grappling with a dire shortage in teachers as the new school year approaches. According to the HCM City Department of Education and Training, which has been recruiting since March, only 1,900 new teachers have entered its pay-...
The Japan-Vietnam Friendship Association organized a special program in Tokyo on August 10 in support of Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange/dioxin. The Musashino Cultural House’s conference hall was fully packed with participants, and many had to...
