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Record-breaking Vietnamese organ transplants from a single donor
Vietnamese doctors have successfully transplanted six organs from one donor to four patients for the first time.Tran Binh Giang, head of Hanoi-based Vietnam-Germany Hospital announced on December 24 that the donor was a 40-year-old brain dead patient. According to his family, he had expressed the ...
Hoang Hai
Law ensures citizens’ right to information access
The Ministry of Justice and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) co-held a seminar in Hanoi on December 24 to introduce leaflets on the Law on Access to InformationCatherine Phuong, a UNDP representative in Vietnam, ensuring people’s right to information access is one of the ...
National ASEAN 2020 Committee makes debut
The National ASEAN 2020 Committee, tasked with making preparations for Vietnam to shoulder the ASEAN Chairmanship in 2020, made debut in Hanoi on December 24.Speaking at the launch ceremony, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said after more than 50 years of formation and development, ASEAN ...
Biggest oil refinery starts commercial operations
PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Sunday attended a ceremony to put Nghi Son oil refinery and petrochemical complex into commercial operations after more than five-year construction.Speaking at the event, PM Phuc said output of the Nghi Son and Dung Quat refineries will meet around 80-90% ...
Quang Minh
Two Vietnamese universities ranked among world’s 300 most sustainable
The UI GreenMetric World University Ranking lists two Vietnamese universities among the 300 most sustainable universities.HCMC-based Ton Duc Thang University and Tra Vinh University in the southern province of the same name are ranked 182nd and 256th, respectively, in the list of 719 most sustainable ...
Manh Tung
Natural disasters kill 218, cost VN $860m
Natural disasters have killed 218 people and caused a total loss of VNĐ20 trillion (US$860 million) to the country this year.Although the number of fatalities and damage was much lower than both in 2016 and 2017, natural disasters have still caused serious destruction to the ...
Vietnam labor costs highest among ASEAN comparators
In a report on enhancing enterprise competitiveness and enhancing small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) linkages, it says Vietnam’s labor costs are higher than in comparable Southeast Asian peers. It defines labor costs for each firm as the cost of all payments to all workers divided by the ...
Hanoi to host 2019 Future of Finance Vietnam
The Future of Finance Vietnam forum, which seeks to nudge the financial sector into adopting digital technology, will take place on January 10.The organizer, The Asian Banker, said the event, with the theme “Unlocking the potential in Vietnam’s Digital Economy”, would look at the financial ecosystem being ...
Consultation workshop focuses on Population Strategy till 2030
The General Office for Population and Family Planning under the Ministry of Health on December 20 held a consultation workshop on a Vietnamese Population Strategy until 2030, drawing representatives from ministries, sectors, localities, and international organisations.Speaking at the event, deputy head of the General Office ...
Vietnam is Asia’s hottest investment destination—Forbes
An article published by US magazine Forbes named Vietnam the hottest investment destination in Asia. According to the article, Vietnam attracted US$17 billion in FDI commitments last year, arguably the largest for an emerging market relative to its $250 billion GDP. In the first quarter of 2018, ...
