General News

  • The Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism has been praised for playing a key role in the conservation and promotion of ethnic culture in recent five years. Ethnic cultural values highlighted The National Ethnic Village for Ethnic...
    Monday, 4th April, 2016
  • Dan Tri has sent VND5 million ($227) and 100kg of rice in urgent support to a 8 year-old girl whose mother had died and father is suffering from serious illness. Representatives from Dan Tri along with Le Ngoc Chanh, chairman of Tan Nghia Commune,...
    Monday, 4th April, 2016
  • Rural communities in the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang have received decent support to keep up living standards, thanks to a practical project funded by New Zealand Aid Program and ChildFund New Zealand. The NZD$2.28-million ($1.52...
    Monday, 4th April, 2016
  • The Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH in Vietnam and General Directorate of Energy (GDE) on March 31 co-host the consultation workshop on “National Biomass Energy Development and Utilization Planning for the Period...
    Monday, 4th April, 2016
  • Vietnam may become a nation with the highest number of cancer cases in the world by 2020, said Do Ngoc Chinh, deputy director of the Center for Study and Consultation on Consumerism (CESCON), state media reported. Mr. Chinh made the projection based...
    Monday, 4th April, 2016
  • Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved the setting up of a research and development centre for human organ and tissue transplants at 108 Military Hospital. The centre will be set up with state funding for scientific and technological...
    Monday, 4th April, 2016
  • The Ministry of Health has collected a total of 784 samples for the Zika virus tests in 32 provinces and cities nationwide from the beginning of 2016 to March 30. However, to date no sample has tested positive for the deadly virus in Vietnam,...
    Monday, 4th April, 2016
  • Saigon Water Corporation (Sawaco) has written to the city government proposing building a water reservoir with a capacity of 1.35 million cubic meters on 23 hectares in the outlying district of Cu Chi in 2016-2017. Sawaco said the city now lacks...
    Monday, 4th April, 2016
  • A number of coastal provinces in the Mekong Delta which are located about 25-40 km from the sea are expected to welcome inflows of fresh water in April when the tide recedes, according to the Southern Irrigation Science Institute. The institute...
    Monday, 4th April, 2016
  • How to ease losses caused by drought and saltwater intrusion that are afflicting the Mekong Delta, south-central and Central Highlands regions dominated the last monthly meeting of the incumbent Government. Such was the last meeting for 20 out of 27...
    Monday, 4th April, 2016