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Vietnam to maintain free ARV drugs supply program after 2012

Local production and purchases from neighboring countries are options under consideration as Vietnam prepares to continue free distribution of antiretroviral drugs after global sponsorship of the program ends in 2012. Bui Duc Duong, deputy head of the Vietnam Administration of HIV/AIDS Control (VAAC) under the Health... Read more

Free school teaches hope

Teacher Pham Thi Ngoc Doan (R) and her first-grade students at the Ward 25 Compulsory School of Love in Binh Thanh District Hundreds of students too poor to afford school have learned to read and write at charity classes in Ho Chi Minh City. A group of students sits in front of a school’s locked doors around... Read more

China, Switzerland agree to begin feasibility study on free trade zone

China and Switzerland decided on Tuesday to begin a joint feasibility study on creating a bilateral free trade zone in the second half of this year as part of their efforts to tackle the challenges of the global financial crisis. President of the Swiss Confederation Hans-Rudolf Merz (L2) holds talks with visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R3) in Bern Jan. 27,... Read more

1.4 million children to get free vaccines

Around 1.4 million children aged under one will get free vaccinations from July, the head of the expanded national program on immunization, Nguyen Tran Hien, said January 19. Lookatvietnam - Around 1.4 million children aged under one will get free vaccinations from July, the head of the expanded national program on immunization, Nguyen Tran Hien, said January... Read more

Labour Union gives workers free trips home for New Year

Lookatvietnam – The HCM City Labour Union has provided almost 6,500 city workers from northern and central provinces with gifts and bus tickets to go home for Tet. HCM City authorities support city workers from northern and central provinces with bus tickets home for Tet.The union raised about VND3.5 billion (US$200,000) for the programme to help workers... Read more

Veggies almost pesticide free

Vegetables on sale at the Metro supermarket in Ha Noi. Twenty five different kinds of vegetable in the city tested by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development are relatively free of pesticides. Lookatvietnam - Samples of 25 different vegetables from wholesale markets throughout Greater Ha Noi have proved them to be reasonably free of pesticides. And... Read more

Little girl free from six kilogram ovary tumor

VietNamNet Bridge – A thirteen year-old girl from the central highlands province of Lam Dong was released from the HCM City-based Children’s Hospital 1 after a six kilogram ovary protuberance was removed. Doctors were cutting the 6kg turmor from the child’s ovary.VietNamNet Bridge – A thirteen year-old girl from the central highlands province... Read more

Vietnam, Japan ink free trade agreement

Japan and Vietnam signed an economic partnership pact Thursday with a promise to cut tariffs on 92 percent of goods and services they trade within a decade. The Economic Partnership Agreement was signed by Industry and Trade Minister Vu Huy Hoang and Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone in Tokyo.It would come into... Read more

HCMC labor unions seek free train tickets for workers

VietNamNet Bridge - More than 3,000 train tickets will be distributed to workers in industrial and export processing zones by the Ho Chi Minh City Labor Union, Deputy Chairman of the city People’s Committee Truong Lam Danh said on Monday. Workers were eager to go home for Tet holiday.VietNamNet Bridge - More than 3,000 train tickets will be distributed... Read more

Mekong children to receive free facial surgery

More than 300 children with cleft lip and palate deformities in the Mekong Delta region will receive free surgery from next week thanks to a campaign launched Friday in Ho Chi Minh City. Operation Smile Vietnam (OSV), National Hospital of OdontoStomatology in HCMC, and the Military Telecom Corporation (Viettel), will implement the project in 12 regional... Read more

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