The Irish Government has pledged a funding of nearly EUR13.3 million ($18.2 million) to poverty reduction program 135 in eight Vietnamese provinces during the 2013-2015 period. Under an agreement to this effect signed in Hanoi on December 13, the...
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved an action program for ethnic minorities in disadvantaged areas through 2020. The program will develop policies to encourage enterprises to provide vocational training and jobs to ethnic minorities well as...
HCM City has approved a tuition-fee exemption for Cham and Khmer ethnic students attending the city's public schools, through kindergarten to high school. The fees will be exempt from next year to 2020. The municipal administration has told the...
The U.S. and the UN Food and Agriculture (FAO) as well as the international community will assist Vietnam in restructuring its agriculture in a bid to help the country integrate into the world, said American Ambassador David Shear to the communist...
The Vietnamese government has asked President Truong Tan Sang to approve a loan agreement between Vietnam and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for a project to upgrade transport infrastructure in the Mekong Delta region, where there is a dense...
The United Kingdom (UK) is ready to share its rich experiences in atomic science and technology with Vietnam and assist the Southeast Asian nation in atomic training, said Andrew Holt, the first secretary of the British Embassy in the communist...
The Institute of Vaccines and Medical Biologicals under the Vietnamese Ministry of Health has successfully produced two vaccines against two types of influenza viruses of A/H1N1 and A/H5N1 after years of research. Under a project funded by the World...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health on Thursday started operation of a vaccine plant in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa capable of producing about 1.5 million doses of A/H5N1 influenza vaccine for human use a year. The plant is the first of its...
The second national forum seeking to further improve healthcare quality is taking place in Ho Chi Minh City on December 12-13. Jointly organized by the Ministry of Public Health and the European Union-funded Project on enhancing the building...
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat urged relevant agencies to step up food safety inspections as consumption increased ahead of the lunar New Year Festival (January 31). "The plant protection section authorities should send...
