The Vietnamese Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Nov. 26 released a report on new approach to poor Vietnamese children. This new methodology is also part of a cooperation...
Hanoi has built 2,943 houses given to poor families in the last eleven months, accounting for 76.5% of the plan, the Communist Party of Vietnam said on its website. The information was given during a meeting of the steering committee of humanitarian...
The government of Spain has financed VND2.328 trillion ($125.9 million) to 22 projects to develop rural infrastructure and production in Vietnam’s northern province of Quang Ninh, the Thoi bao Kinh te newspaper reported Thursday. Ten of these...
The World Bank (WB) will grant $1.35 million to help Vietnam develop Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Program in infrastructure development. The loan was announced by the Vietnamese Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) at a seminar jointly held...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has given a nod to a HIV/AIDS prevention project with an estimated cost of VND1.59 trillion to strengthen capabilities of provincial and municipal authorities, the Hanoi Moi newspaper reported Nov 25, citing...
More than 1,000 Vietnamese and foreign professors and doctors took part in the International Odonto-Maxillo-Facial Conference and the 7th International Dental Exhibition in Hanoi on Nov. 25. During the conference, leading professors and doctors from...
Around 250 pharmaceutical and medical equipment companies worldwide will showcase their products at the Vietnam Medi-Pharm Expo 2009 that is scheduled to open in Hanoi between Dec. 2-5. During the event, the 16th of its kind, companies from France,...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health has confirmed one more death relating to swine flu, raising the country’s death toll to 43, a senior health official said at a meeting on A/H1N1 pandemic prevention in Hanoi on Nov. 25. Nguyen Huy Nga chief of the...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has hailed Vietnam for its fruitful results in reducing infant death rate over the past 20 years, state media reported, citing WHO official. Addressing the press conference on immunization in Hanoi Nov 20,...
More than 500 Vietnamese and foreign leading experts and professors took part in the 3rd national conference on lung diseases in Ho Chi Minh City on Nov. 26. During the event, the experts discussed one hundred research works on tuberculosis and lung...
