A delegation from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) visited the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak on Nov. 10 to examine opportunities for support in areas such as poverty reduction, employment, healthcare and social services.
The visiting delegation also planned to assess the USAID’s existing programme to develop rubber trees in Ea Kar and Lac districts.
At a reception for the delegation, the Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee, Lu Ngoc Cu, stressed the importance of the USAID project, saying that it has helped to increase the rubber-growing area in the province and contributed to improving the living conditions for local residents.
He said he hoped that USAID will continue to implement projects in education, healthcare and poverty reduction in the province.
A youth village is under construction on an area of 4,700 ha of land in a remote mountainous district of the central province of Quang Tri at a cost of 46 billion VND.
The project aims to help young people make a living while contributing to socio-economic development in disadvantaged communities and maintaining security and national defence along border.
The project will be executed from now till 2013.
(Source: VNA)
City hospital given five-star ranking
The Vu Anh International General Hospital has become the first healthcare facility to receive five-star accreditation for the high class facilities and services it provides.
The certification was granted by the Viet Nam National Tourism Administration (VNAT) last Saturday (November 8).
The HCM City-based hospital, which opened last November, is equipped with modern technology and can accommodate 200 inpatients.
Each room has a modern camera system that can help inpatients interact with their relatives and well wishers within and outside the country.
This is Viet Nam's second high class hospital after the Sai Gon International OB-GYN Hospital (SIHOSPITAL), which opened in 1996.
Quang Ngai destroys one tonne of blowfish
Authorities of the central province of Quang Ngai have culled more than one tonne of noc fish, or blowfish, which were confiscated at the Sa Huynh Fishing Port.
They had previously destroyed 450kg of the fish at the same port.
Despite a local ban the blowfish business seemed to be increasing, said a Pho Thanh Commune official. In the past four years about 110 people across the country have died from eating the dangerous fish, according to the Department of Food Hygiene and Safety.
(Source: Viet Nam News) | 
