Vietnam wants to receive more support and learn experience from the Singapore National Trade Union Congress (SNTUC) in building a trade union movement, said Dang Ngoc Tung, President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor (VGCL). President...
Vietnam’s biggest city of Ho Chi Minh will begin construction of Ben Thanh-Tham Luong metro route funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in July 2013, Vice Chairman Nguyen Huu Tri said. The 11.3- kilometer route, designed to run through...
The Japanese government has pledged to support Vietnam to develop the industry sector, especially supporting industries, to accelerate the latter’s industrialization process by 2020. The statement was made by visiting Japanese Minister of Economy,...
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has recently granted a donation of $10.9 million to sanitation and hygiene projects in poor and rural areas in Vietnam and Cambodia, the U.S.-based non-governmental organization East Meets West (EMW) reported...
Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan visited families of Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin victims in the northern province of Ha Nam on August 5 and presented 12 gifts worth more than VND5 million each. She expressed her sympathy with AO victims while encouraging...
The Ho Chi Minh City Association of Victims of Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin has raised over 2.7 billion VND (128,000 USD) to help AO victims in the city since 2011. At the ceremony to commemorate the 51st year since AO/dioxin began to be sprayed over...
Representatives from the Vietnamese Ministry of Defense and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) discussed the details of the long-awaited cleanup plan for Danang Airport during a scientific conference in Hanoi on July 31...
The Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRC) has set a target to mobilize VND100 billion ($4.8 million) for Agent Orange (AO) victims during this year’s Action Month for AO Victims, which will run from August 10 to September 10. The month will begin on...
The U.S. on Aug 9 started a $41-million project in Vietnam’s central city of Danang, marking Washington’s first involvement in cleaning up dioxin residue left in the Vietnam War, the Thanh Nien newspaper reported on Aug 9. Conducted by the...
A 230kg wartime bomb was successfully defused by the provincial Military Command after it was found on Thursday in Vinh City's Hung Hoa Commune in the north central province of Nghe An. The 1.7 meter bomb, identified as a US-made device, was found...
