Japan considers Vietnam a leading partner in terms of official development assistance (ODA) and will maintain a high level of aid for the country, Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba said. Mr. Gemba made the statement during talks with his...
National Power Transmission Corporation (NTP) under the state-run Vietnam Electricity Group (EVN) has launched a transmission project costing $215 million funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the French Development Agency (AFD). The...
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will assist Vietnam’s southern province of Tien Giang in tapping its potential to develop community-based tourism, state media reported. The assistance is part of a three-year project on heritage...
Professor Dr. Shigeru Morichi, Director of the Policy Research Centre under Japan’s National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), July 18 said that Japan will cooperate with Hanoi in developing its urban railway system. Mr. Morichi made...
The central highlands province of Dak Lak will be spend 48.8 VND billion ($2.34 million) to preserve and promote Gong culture from 2012-2015, an eightfold increase compared over the 2007-2010 period. Accordingly, the budget will be used to open gong...
An unexploded 150-kilogram bomb leftover from the Vietnam War was unearthed in the central province of Nghe An on Monday, reported the online newspaper Dan Tri. A group of searching for unexploded ordinances (UXOs) found it in a paddy field in Vinh...
More than VND7 billion has been raised from the charitable message program entitled “the pain of Agent Orange” launched in 2011. Senior lieutenant-general Nguyen Van Rinh, President of the Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (VAVA...
The Viet Nam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/dioxin (VAVA) and the National Humanitarian Information Gate have launched "Orange Pain 2012" program to raise funds. Each mobile text message with the word DACAM sent to 1409 will add VND18,000...
Nearly 1.4 million poor people living in Viet Nam's rural areas will be given access to running water and financial support to help them install water-tanks, heard a conference in Ha Noi on Tuesday. The Community Hygiene Output-based Aid Program in...
Some of Hanoi's poorer students will be eligible for tuition fee exemptions from the coming school year. The resolution reached by the city's People's Council yesterday, July 11, comes as part of new tuition fee levels at State-run schools and...
