• Rise in hand, foot, mouth cases
  Rise in hand, foot, mouth cases
  

  The number of children contracting hand, foot mouth disease (HFMD) is on the rise even though the peak season is still one month away, Children Hospitals Nos 1 and 2 in HCM City have announced.
  18/03
• Viral lab put into operation
  Viral lab put into operation
  

  A Hanoi-based blood-borne viral testing laboratory, part of a cooperation project between Vietnam and Ireland, was officially put into operation on March 17.
  18/03
• Girl dies of A/H5N1 in HCM City
  Girl dies of A/H5N1 in HCM City
  

  Another patient has died of the A/H5N1 virus on March 17 in Ho Chi Minh City, confirmed a city health official.
  18/03
• Seminar discusses natural resource co-management
  Seminar discusses natural resource co-management
  

  German environmental experts and representatives of local nature reserves and environment organisations gathered in the southern province of Soc Trang on March 17 for a three-day workshop to find out the best ways of managing natural resources in Vietnam.
  18/03
• Seoul to help Hanoi upgrade polluted river
  Seoul to help Hanoi upgrade polluted river
  

  Seoul will cooperate with Hanoi to upgrade the polluted To Lich River, ensuring the Vietnamese capital city’s urban scenery for its 1,000th founding anniversary.
  18/03

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• Northern flood victims receive emergency aid
  Northern flood victims receive emergency aid
  

  Bao Viet Group has decided to provide VND183 million in emergency aid to help Pac Nam district in Bac Kan province to overcome the consequences of the recent floods.
  10/07
• Vietnam reserves drugs to replace Tamiflu
  Vietnam reserves drugs to replace Tamiflu
  

  

  Vietnam has reserved stocks of Relenza to replace Tamiflu if any cases prove to be resistant to Tamiflu, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH).
  10/07
• Vietnam-Sweden environmental project works well
  Vietnam-Sweden environmental project works well
  

  The Vietnam-Sweden Cooperation Programme on Strengthening Environmental Management and Land Administration in Vietnam (SEMLA) has proved very effective in localities, according to a seminar held in Hanoi on July 8.
  10/07
• WB helps Vietnam reduce poverty, light up countryside
  WB helps Vietnam reduce poverty, light up countryside
  

  

  The World Bank will provide a total of US$300 million to aid the implementation of the second phase of a poverty reduction project and to increase rural access to electricity.
  10/07
• NGO grants going strong
  NGO grants going strong
  

  Vietnam received commitments to humanitarian and socio-economic assistance from 17 new foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the first half of the year, despite the impact of the global economic downturn.
  10/07