Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved the portfolio of Vietnam Road Asset Management Program (VRAMP) funded by the World Bank (WB), the government said on its website. The government chief assigned the Ministry of Transport to finalize the...
The Canadian government will provide CAD20 million ($20.19 million) in non-refundable aid to Vietnam to improve the quality of its human resources, said Canadian Ambassador to Vietnam Deborah Chatsis. A memorandum of understanding between the...
After successful campaigns in 2010 and 2011, the third Understanding the Heart program to raise money for heart surgery for poor children and disadvantaged people began last week. This year it will feature a program called Connection of Million...
The Community Hygiene Output-Based Aid (CHOBA) project was launched on Monday by East Meets West Foundation and the Viet Nam Women's Union in the Mekong Delta Province of Tra Vinh. The project costs VND11.5 billion ($547,619) and will last until...
The Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Dong Thap has built 11,118 houses worth a total of VND292 billion ($14 million) for needy households. The effort was part of a three-year program to offer housing for the disadvantaged, under decision 167/2008...
The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has recently issued an array of policies regarding financial assistance to poor households in the city in the 2012–2015 period. From 2013 to 2015, the City will annually take VND50-70 billion from its budget...
Authorities in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi will provide VND330-billion soft loans to 22,000 poor families from now to the end of 2012, said the municipal People’s Committee. According to the committee, in the first seven months of the year,...
An international seminar on preserving the traditional architecture of the Co Tu ethnic group took place in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on August 20. The event drew the participation of both domestic and international scientists and...
Southern Binh Thuan province will grow rubber trees in the areas inhabited by ethnic groups, in a move to improve the living standards there. Accordingly, some 420 ha will be grown with rubber trees by 2013, expected to turn out a latex output of...
- Panasonic Viet Nam Co., Ltd yesterday awarded three scholarships each worth JPY7.87 million ($100,000) to outstanding Vietnamese graduates to follow three-year masters courses in Japan. The annual Panasonic Scholarship Program, founded in 1998 and...
