Vietnam’s Central Highlands provinces have so far invested nearly VND999 billion (around $47 million) in building 43,345 houses for poor ethnic minority people, a move to help them stabilize their lives and develop production. Of the total, over...
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will continue to cooperate with Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) in inspecting local markets to detect the deadly H7N9 bird flu, said an official from the world agency....
Poor reproductive education has led to rampant abortion in Vietnam, ranking the country 5th worldwide in abortion rate. Of 300,000 abortion cases among women aged between 15 and 19, high school pupils and students make up 70%. “This is the result of...
Efforts to curb with HIV/AIDS in Vietnam may be affected after foreign organizations announced that they will reduce their financial support to the country in 2013, the Ministry of Health said. International organizations including the U.S....
Microorganisms were blamed for the cause of a recent mass poisoning at ForeMart Garment Company in the northern province of Hung Yen's An Thi District, according to the Ministry of Health's Administration for Food Safety and Hygiene. The poisoning...
Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi has launched a program to encourage local residents to limit the use of nylon bags to protect the environment, state media reported. The program, which will last till the end of this year, aims to encourage locals to...
The Vietnamese government should design a clearer national action plan on green growth, a representative from the World Bank (WB) said at a recent conference in Hanoi. The WB representative made the appeal at the seminar on July 12 to kick-start a...
The first national assessment report on coastal erosion in Vietnam was released at a meeting in Hanoi July 17 with the support from the Coordinating Body on the Seas of East Asia (COBSEA), state media reported. The report is expected to provide...
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment will propose the Vietnamese National Assembly gradually increase spending on environmental protection to at least 2% of the state budget by 2015 from the current 1%, state media reported. The...
There are at this time several inadequacies in the current textbooks and education programs for basic education due to the disparity in the quality of teaching staff between one school and another. The National Assembly's Committee for Culture...
