Central Highlands Dak Lak Province will invest through 2015 more than VND37.6 billion ($1.8 million) to develop a system of co-operatives, with emphasis on rural and mountainous districts. Four-hundred co-operatives will be set up. The province...
Medicines of unidentified origin are being traded publicly in markets in the mountainous provinces of Lao Cai's Bac Ha and Si Ma Cai districts. The vendors are mostly ethnic minority people without any license for drug trading. Bac Ha District's...
- Authorities in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh put in use a primary school and a clinic funded by the U.S. government and people on Oct 18, state media reported. This is the two first facilities that the U.S. government and citizens...
Vietnam expected the U.K. to continue to provide official development assistance (ODA) for the country, especially in infrastructure and climate change adaptation, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said. Mr. Dung made the statement at a meeting with...
The U.S. Export-Import Bank (EXIM Bank) has pledged to provide soft loans worth $1.5 billion to Vietnamese companies to purchase “made in USA” goods, services and machinery. The information was announced by the bank’s senior Asia-Pacific business...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a draft agreement on official development assistance (ODA) and a credit agreement for the second phase of the Soai Rap Dredging Project. The PM assigned the Ministry of Finance to sign the loan...
Singapore would be willing to play the intermediary role between Vietnam and foreign investors, especially those from EU countries, George Huang, president of Singapore Manufacturing Federation (SMF) said. Mr. Huang, who also serves as managing...
Vietnam hopes to receive more assistance in terms of capital, experience and policy consultations from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in restructuring state-owned enterprises (SOEs), said Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh. Mr. Ninh made the...
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has funded $2 million to Vietnam’s central city of Danang for upgrading the urban transport system, which is overloaded by rapid urbanization. Under the memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed on...
The European Union (EU) will continue to provide a non-refundable aid of EUR15 million to the Multilateral Trade Assistance Project Vietnam IV (MUTRAP IV) to support the country’s integration into the global trading and investment system in the next...
