The World Bank (WB) has pledged to continue providing preferential loans for Vietnam in the next three years, Vice President of the World Bank for East Asia and the Pacific, Axel van Trotsenburg said. Mr. Trotsenburg made the statement at a WB...
The Vietnamese government has called on international partners to help mobilize resources to ensure early detection, prevention and control of a new strain of avian influenza A (H7N9) amid emergence of the deadly virus in China. The call was made at...
The Ministry of Health May 6 suspended the use of Quinvaxem, a combined vaccine against five diseases among children, following six deaths across Vietnam over the past six months. Vietnam will wait for an investigation on the quality of the South...
Vietnam needs an estimated more than $120 million for preventive activities of a new strain of avian influenza A (H7N9) virus in both humans and poultry, according to the Ministries of Agriculture and Health. The figure was released at a conference...
The Ministry of Health is calling for investments in building small hospitals across Vietnam by 2020 to ease the severe hospital overload and to better medical cares for local residents. The capital is expected to come from the state budget,...
Vietnam is one of the 10 countries worldwide that have made the greatest strides in saving lives of newborn babies over the past two decades, said the global charity organization Save the Children. The country brought down the newborn mortality rate...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has sent experts to Vietnam to investigate the alleged serious side-effects of Quinvaxem, a combined vaccine for children, after suspected deaths in recent months. In an urgent dispatch dated May 4, the Health...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has proposed the government to spend an additional VND364 billion ($17.33 million) on the National Target Program for Rural Water Supply and Sanitation by 2016. Earlier in Feb, the State Bank of...
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) May 3 held a meeting in Hanoi to discuss the “Wildlife Consumption in Vietnam” (WLC) project to call for more efforts in boosting biodiversity conservation in the country. The WLC...
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has approved a loan worth around $30 million for Vietnam to reduce carbon emissions and deal with huge negative impacts of climate change in the next five years. The project, to be carried out by...
