The European Union (EU) will finance Vietnam approximate $400 million worth of official development assistance (ODA) for development in a range of sectors, mostly energy from now until 2020, said newly-accredited Ambassador to Vietnam Bruno Angelet...
Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi is building another pediatric hospital costing VND785 billion ($35.2 million), according to the municipal Health Department, raising the total number of pediatric hospitals in the city to two to meet the healthcare...
Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien has become the first Vietnamese politician in the country to sign up for organ donation after death as she wants to encourage others to do the same, state media reported on October 27. Minister Tien spoke to the...
Vietnam’s Health Insurance Fund is estimated to have a surplus of VND5.2 trillion ($233.18 million) as of end 2014, according to the agency’s report. The Health Insurance agency have save trillions of dong each year starting 2010 after reforming its...
Heart disease accounts for 30% of total deaths caused by non-transmitted diseases in Vietnam, according to recently published statistics. The Vietnam National Congress of Interventional Cardiology has recently held by the Health Ministry and...
The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal is expected to open the gate for foreign pharmaceutical producers to enter Vietnam and compete with local medicine producers, the Dau Tu newspaper reported on Oct 30. Like other free trade agreement, the...
Authorities in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi have said that it gets ready to kick off construction of a water supply plant at a cost of VND3.7 trillion ($164.4 million) to ease the water shortage that is troubling local residents, an official said...
China’s operation and regulation of water reservoirs located in the upstream of rivers would largely affect the flow of a number of rivers, mostly Red river in Vietnam, minister cum chairman of the Vietnamese Government Office has said. The...
Participants questioned the transparency as well as effectiveness of collecting environmental protection fees from miners at a conference held in Hanoi. The fee has been officially collected from individuals or organizations exploiting minerals...
Authorities have collected huge amounts of environmental protection fees but the sufferings of residents in mining areas have remained unabated, heard a conference in Hanoi last week on mineral mining and rights of local communities. Nguyen Van Tuan...
