Soldiers in Nghe An Province have safely removed a 250-kilogram Vietnam War bomb from a local house after it was found by some construction workers. A huge bomb found three meters underground in Nghe An Province March 6. The two-meter bomb was...
The Danang City Association for Victims of Agent Orange (DAVA) inaugurated a house for Agent Orange (AO) victims with polio in Hoa Nhon Commune in Hoa Van District on Mar 9. The house, which was built with a donation from Singaporean Harold Chan Soo...
A rehabilitation and nursery centre for Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin victims was put into operation in Hanoi’s Thach That district on March 10. President of the Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (VAVA) Nguyen Van Rinh said the centre...
The Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang will provide housing loans worth VND108 billion for nearly 3,600 disadvantaged households in the locality between now and 2020, according to the provincial People’s Committee. The program will give priority to...
Northwestern mountainous region remains the poorest part of Vietnam as more than half of households are rated “poor” and “near-poor”, far from the country’s average of 5%, state media reported, citing the Central Steering Committee for Sustainable...
Bau Truc pottery village in Ninh Thuan Province is highly recommended by travel guidebooks as this is where Cham ethnic people produce exotic pottery items. The village lies by National Highway 1A in Phuoc Dan Town, Ninh Phuoc District, about 10...
The Vietnamese prime minister has approved a $408.93 million project to build 2,174 small bridges in remote areas, with majority of the amount from the World Bank (WB), state media reported. The project is part of a program to build 4,145 small...
Vietnam’s northern mountainous city of Ha Giang will become a green city once the Secondary Cities (Green Cities) Development Project II – Ha Giang subproject is completed in the next five years. The information was revealed at a March 8 working...
The Japanese government has pledged to raise its official development assistance (ODA) for Vietnam by JPY290 billion or $2.5 billion in the 2016 fiscal year, according to the White Book on ODA released on March 8. According to the White Book, Japan...
A new breed of mosquitoes injected with bacteria in central Vietnam has been proven to be able to stop the spread of dengue fever and the Zika virus, Thanh Nien newspaper reported citing health officials as saying on March 7. In April 2013,...
