Central Highlands provinces are set to continue to build new houses for 46,000 poor households between now and 2015 under the guideline of the Central Highlands Steering Committee. Regional provinces including Dak Lak, Gia Lai, Kon Tum, Dak Nong,...
The Vietnam Red Cross (VRC) in co-ordination with Vietnam Television and the Border Guard High Command are implementing a project to donate breeding cows to needy ethnic minority people for the 2013-2014 period. Under the ‘Cow Bank’ project, around...
Authorities in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong have chosen 48 remote locations with large populations of ethnic minority groups, to set up sites providing free Internet access. The project, funded by the Bill&Melinda Gates Foundation...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a non-refundable project costing $1.2 million funded by the United National Development Program (UNDP) to help raise capacity of human rights protection in the Southeast Asian country. The...
The Vietnamese government will work closely with the World Bank (WB) to speed up the disbursement and increase the efficiency of its loans, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said. PM Dung made the statement at a meeting with Axel van Trotsenburg, vice...
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,...
