South Korea wants to boost bilateral military cooperation with Vietnam, willing to assist Vietnam in clearing land mines left from wars, affirmed Ambassador Jun Dae Joo to the communist nation. Ambassador Jun made this statement at the reception in...
A working team led by Michael Rothstein, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Plans, Programs, and Operations in the US Department of State’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, visited the central province of Quang Tri from October 10-13. The visit was...
Vietnam’s poverty rate is expected to decline sharply in the next few years thanks to positive economic signs, the World Bank said in a report on the country’s macro-economic situation released last week. The rate of people whose income below $3 per...
The PM has approved a program on supporting scientific and technological transfer and application to boost socio-economic development in rural, mountainous and ethnic minority areas in the 2016-2025 period. The program aims at building at least 1,...
The Vietnam Red Cross (VNRC) will launch a new disaster risk management program supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) that will benefit an estimated 20,000 people in provinces of Bac Lieu, Hoa Binh, and Quang...
Prices of 1,800 health care services, including prices of surgeries and operations by medical staffs, in Vietnam will increase 20% starting November this year, Head of the Financial Planning Department under the Ministry of Health (MoH) Nguyen Nam...
People’s Committee in the central city of Danang on October 14 started construction of Cardiology Center in the province’s General Hospital. The VND236.2 billion ($10.54 million) cardiology center from the city state budget is one of major...
Vietnam may face water shortages in the near future, according to Prof Dr Ngo Dinh Tuan, chair of the Vietnam Association of Water Resources and Environment. Many people mistakenly think that Vietnam is a land rich in water resources because of the...
The Hanoi City People's Committee has proposed to the People's Council that there should be a program for food safety inspections in wholesale markets in Hanoi. Under the program, all agricultural and seafood products in nine wholesale markets are...
Forest rangers in Phong Nha - Ke Bang national park in this central province have captured a group of poachers and rescued some red-listed wild animals from their traps. The park's forest rangers succeeded in rescuing five common palm civets (...
