Sustainable Development Goals
Japan launches Southeast Asian cancer research project to improve treatment, access
The National Cancer Center Japan (NCCJ) has launched a cooperative project with Vietnam and four other Southeast Asian countries to develop cancer drugs, therapies and improve treatment access.By expanding clinical trials in other countries and sharing relevant data, the project could help hasten the development ...
Phan Anh
Grassroots healthcare clinics to be upgraded
Vietnam is one of the few countries with a complete healthcare network which had been widely expanded to villages to provide primary treatment to local people, Deputy Minister of Health Do Xuan Tuyen said. The grassroots healthcare network in Vietnam had 1,400 hospitals, 180,000 beds and more ...
Banks to complete linking with public service portal by mid-September
Vietnam will complete the linkage of 46 commercial banks currently operating in the country with the national public service portal by September 15, according to the Government Office.To date the payment services of 38 banks have been integrated into the portal whose online payment system ...
SBV to soon complete legal framework for wider Fintech application
The State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) is completing a legal framework to boost the development of digital banking and Fintech. According to Pham Xuan Hoe, deputy director of the Banking Strategy Institute, Viet Nam’s Fintech market will be worth US$9 billion in 2020, making it ASEAN’s fourth-largest ...
Thuy Dung
For a non-plastic waste marine environment
Marine pollution in Vietnam due to plastic waste continues to increase, having significantly affected the ecosystem, organisms and people’s health over recent years.Waste from land and marine-based sources; the capacity to manage it, collection and treatment of waste; public awareness about protecting the marine environment ...
Communities may be granted power to monitor environmental protection activities
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment is considering revising the Law on Environmental Protection which took effect in 2014. Three core topics set for amendment are removing required environmental licenses, assessing the environmental impacts of projects and the treatment of solid domestic waste.For the first ...
Support policies provide leverage for ethnic people to escape poverty
The implementation of poverty reduction programme in the 2016-20 period in border provinces such as Hà Giang, Lai Châu and Lào Cai has proved the effectiveness of the government support and investment policies to reduce poverty and reach the national target programme on sustainable poverty reduction.However, the ...
Facebook joins MRC to raise awareness about flood, drought
The Mekong River Commission (MRC) Secretariat and Facebook on August 31 launched a collaboration initiative to provide early flood alert and drought monitoring information to riparian communities and governments in the Lower Mekong region.The collaboration, the first of its kind, aims to raise awareness among ...
National data portal inaugurated
The national data portal https://data.gov.vn was launched by the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) during a ceremony in Hanoi on August 31. The portal provides data of State agencies in service of political and socio-economic activities, contributing to the process of e-government building in ...
Made-in-Vietnam AI platform debuted
The Viettel AI Open Platform, an artificial intelligence (AI) platform developed by the military-run telecoms group Viettel, was launched by the Ministry of Information and Communication at a ceremony on August 28.The platform is currently focusing on areas such as Vietnamese speech processing technology (Speech ...
