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,...
Vietnam has so far recorded no cases related to Zika virus, which is now affecting 54 countries and territories worldwide, the Ministry of Health’s Preventive Medicine Department announced on March 7. However, taking into account the virus spread in...
The Department of Medicine under Vietnam’s Ministry of Health said that there will be 160,000 doses of meningococcal vaccine available in April. The volume includes 60,000 doses of Polysaccharide meningococcal A+C for children from two years old and...
Application of advanced mini techniques can reduce post-operative care and pain compared to traditional methods, doctors said at Binh Dan Hospital’s biennial conference held in Ho Chi Minh City on Mar 5. Laparoscopic surgery is used in appendectomy...
Vietnam passed a law relating to organ donation in 2006, however, so far the number of clinically-dead patients who have consented to donate their organs has been extremely low. The blame for such low numbers, is directed at a lack of public...
The Vietnam Red Cross Society on Mar 10 said that this year, the National Steering Committee on Voluntary Blood Donation strives to encourage people to donate blood to meet expectation of 1,282,000 blood units. To get the amount of blood donation,...
