Two of the three French lawyers representing a French-Vietnamese woman in an Agent Orange lawsuit against 26 U.S. chemical companies arrived in HCM City to met other AO victims. The 73-year-old dioxin-affected Tran To Nga is suing the companies that...
The Association of Agent Orange/Dioxin (AO) Victims in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho held a meeting on August 4 to mark the day for AO victims (August 10). During the event, 83 scholarships worth 5VND00,000 ($23) each were gifted to children from...
A detoxification house in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai has treated 33 Agent Orange/dioxin victims and members of the public after two months of operation. The first facility of its kind has two rooms that seat 24 clients and uses...
Over 800 social infrastructure projects covering rural roads, irrigation systems and fresh water facilities have become operational under the Northern Mountains Poverty Reduction Project, which aims to improve the livelihoods of mountainous...
The Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang, where the Khmer ethnic minority accounts for over 30% of the population, is focusing on intensifying livestock raising, particularly dairy cows, to help locals, especially ethnic minorities, rise out of...
Elderly people, tribal chieftains, artisans and prestigious people from16 small ethnic groups with populations of less than 10,000 people have asked the Government to pay more attention to conserving and restoring their cultural heritage. Ethnic...
Official development assistance (ODA) sources provided for the central province of Thua Thien-Hue have been used effectively, especially in developing local infrastructure facilities. Since 2014, the locality has implemented 16 ODA projects worth...
The Vietnamese government on Aug. 3 approved the all subsectors of the project “Urban Wastewater Management” Phase Fourth with total capital of EUR3.85 million ($4.2 million). The project will be carried out in three years (2015-2018) with EUR3.5...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Health (MoH) reported that the country has 495 encephalitis cases with 16 deaths in the first seven months of this year, up 40 cases and 9 deaths respectively on year, the Thanh Nien newspaper reported on August 3. In July...
The nationwide measles-rubella immunization campaign for all children aged 1-14 has helped Vietnam prevent the diseases from spreading, as few new cases of measles were reported in the first seven months of this year, said Director of the Preventive...
