The French Development Agency (AFD) will fund EUR30.5 million to support private firms in rural Vietnam, the Vietnam News Agency said Thursday. The agreement for the funding was signed by Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Finance Nguyen Cong Nghiep and...
Dong Nai General Hospital operated Wednesday a center to treat cancer patients by radiation therapy, the Tuoi Tre newspaper reported Thursday. Equipped with most modern medical equipment, the center will provide treatment for cancer patients of...
The French-speaking community of Brussels and Liege University of Belgium have assisted a project to build a family doctor center in Hanoi, the Suc Khoe & Doi Song newspaper reported Thursday. The project, the first of its kind in northern...
Vietnam has reported 80,000 dengue fever cases year-to-date, up 7.1% from a year earlier with 60 deaths, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said on its website Thursday. Of the disease-hit provinces and cities nationwide, Soc Trang province in the Mekong...
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has decided to finance an additional $16 million for a program to fight HIV/AIDS in Vietnam, the Lao Dong newspaper reported Nov 13. The program, conducted by the Pact organization, has so far...
Governor of Australia’s New South Wales, Prof. Marie Bashir, will attend a launching ceremony of a AUD22,000 ($20,400) water purification system at Vietnam-Germany Hospital today, Nov. 9. The project was initiated by the Australia-Vietnam Learning...
Up to 8.2 million Vietnamese suffer from food poisoning and related diseases a year, the Lao Dong newspaper reported Wednesday, citing the World Health Organization. When debating the draft law on food safety Wednesday, lawmakers raised concerns...
Farmers and retailers are encouraged to adopt the Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) guidelines in efforts to promote organic farming and consumption of safe farm produce in Vietnam, a seminar in Hanoi Nov 10 heard. The seminar on the development...
The Norwegian government has decided to fund $9.3 million to build a wastewater treatment and drainage system in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Tri, the Tien Phong newspaper reported Thursday. The local authorities and Norwegian officials met...
An international conference on reduced emissions from deforestation degradation (REDD) opened in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi on Nov. 11. Taking part in the event were Vietnamese officials and representatives from nine developing countries the UN...
