Vietnam’s Ministry of Health has said that it would raise medical insurance by 1.5 percentage points to 4.5% of the basic salary for students in the 2015-2016 school year, state media reported Friday. The rise follows the enforcement of the revised...
The Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange (AO)/Dioxin (VAVA) and Cambodia’s sponsoring association for post-war victims hope to sign a coordination program soon to define basic principles, targets, and measures to jointly help AO victims in...
The World Bank (WB) supports in policy consultancy, technical and financial assistance, which significantly contributes to Vietnam’s socio-economic development, poverty reduction and renovation, WB Country Director in Vietnam Victoria Kwakwa said....
Dak Lak province’s Krong Pach district has completed all 19 criteria of the national new rural development program. This is attributed to the local authorities’ wise leadership and local public consensus in implementing the program. Krong Pach’s...
The hospital of the Central Highlands University, the Dak Lak provincial Fund for Children has recently worked with Operation Smile Vietnam, Amway Company and Vietnam – Cuba Friendship Hospital Hanoi to give free surgery to 80 children who suffer...
Wearing helmet is compulsory for all motorcycle drivers in Vietnam, but following such a rule is not quite an easy task for women of some ethnic minority groups, who wear high buns as a centuries-old custom. The question whether there should be a...
State utility Vietnam Electricity (EVN), the country’s sole power distributor, will be allowed to borrow soft loans from Russia and Japan to build nuclear power plants in Vietnam’s central province of Ninh Thuan, state media reported. EVN will build...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health and World Bank officials on August 25 worked with authorities in the central province of Quang Ngai on a project to build a medical waste treatment plant costing VND123 billion ($5.45 million) in the locality. Quang Ngai...
Vietnamese doctors have successfully performed two operations on a baby born with her heart outside her chest, a rare case in the world and the first of its kind in Vietnam. Dr. Nguyen Hoang Dinh, head of the Cardiovascular Operation Department at...
Most Vietnamese people don't pay attention to nutrition, says Nguyen Thi Lam, the deputy director of the National Institute of Nutrition. Nutrition awareness was lacking among people with low incomes and those who were better off, the rich often ate...
