General News

  • The Sponsor Association for Poor Patients has just given 400 health insurance cards to poor people in Districts 3 and 4 in Ho Chi Minh City, with added help from banks and benefactors.To help poor households overcome difficulties, the People’s...
    Tuesday, 15th January, 2013
  • A program providing free birth control services will continue to target populations in remote and underprivileged areas, especially ethnic minority groups and industrial park workers.The information was informed by head of Marie Stopes International...
    Tuesday, 15th January, 2013
  • The Ho Chi Minh City authorities have launched a large project to help reduction of in urban areas in the city from now until 2016.In ceremony to kick off the project, the People’s committee said the project will be implemented with a cost of $2...
    Tuesday, 15th January, 2013
  • The central city of Danang has earmarked more than VND1,000 billion for a poverty reduction project over the 2013–2017 period.The city wants the project to raise all disadvantaged households beyond the special poor classification by 2016.To achieve...
    Tuesday, 15th January, 2013
  • Corps 5, under Military Zone 4, launched and handed over a kindergarten to Can Hamlet, Tam Chung Commune, Muong Lat District, Thanh Hoa Province on January 9th.The cost of VND420 million for construction and equipment was financed by the unit. Once...
    Tuesday, 15th January, 2013
  • Local governments in the southwestern region have done well to raise Khmer people’s living standards, said the Southwestern Region Steering Committee at a meeting in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on January 9 to review achievements in 2012 and...
    Tuesday, 15th January, 2013
  • The remaining part of the valuable M’Nong epic story entitled ‘Danh trom ca ho Nglau Lach’ (Stealing Fish in Nglau Lach Lake) has been translated into Vietnamese by the folk artisan, Dieu Thi Mai, from Bu Prang village in Dak Nong province.The first...
    Tuesday, 15th January, 2013
  • The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has added Then singing and Long Tong festival – two typical cultural features of the Tay ethnic minority groups in the north – to the list of national intangible cultural heritage.Nguyen Viet Thanh, head...
    Tuesday, 15th January, 2013
  • - U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam David Shear visited the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT) on January 8 to donate blood and encourage others to help save lives by giving the gift of blood before the upcoming Tet holiday....
    Tuesday, 15th January, 2013
  • The World Bank (WB) and the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID) have pledged to provide an additional $9 million for a HIV/AIDS prevention project in Vietnam this year.The funding is expected to help minimize the fatality rate of...
    Tuesday, 15th January, 2013