Japan will provide more official development assistance (ODA) for Vietnam’s biggest city of Ho Chi Minh in the coming years, Tadashi Maeda, Senior Advisor of the Japan Cabinet said. Mr. Maeda, also Managing Executive Officer and Global Head of...
The International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL), an NGO with consultative status at UNESCO, called for the protection of Vietnamese Agent Orange victims at the ongoing 20th regular session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in...
Two U.S. firms have been given contracts by the American government to remediate dioxin residue in Vietnam’s Danang airport, one of sites contaminated with the Agent Orange/dioxin left in the Vietnam War. Through the U.S. Agency for International...
A 450-kg bomb was found buried in a maize field in Son Tay village, Huong Son district, Ha Tinh province on July 7. The Military Zone 4 engineer corps said that the bomb and its fuse was left in the field during the war and could have exploded if it...
Surgeons from Quang Ngai General Hospital, in co-operation with Central Eye Hospital, began on Monday the first of 200 cataract operations on poor patients from 14 towns and villages in Son Tinh District. Costs for the surgery were funded by...
The Dong Nai Province People's Committee has launched a program to support 5,000 poor households in rural, remote and ethnic minority areas to improve agricultural production from now until 2015. The program, which is estimated to cost about VND15...
Many different reasons have been cited to explain why 1,163 university students had reportedly dropped out so far this year, according to official statistics. However, the biggest reason was the overly high tuitions unaffordable to poor students....
The People's Committee of the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak has set up a project to preserve and develop the gong culture through 2015. The province estimates a budget of VND49 billion ($2,450) to carry out the project. It will hold classes...
- The Japanese Government will provide $245,000 in non refundable aid for building two schools in the two northern mountainous provinces of Hoa Binh and Lang Son. The aid agreement was signed at a ceremony in Hanoi on July 6. The first school with 8...
The World Bank (WB) will help the Vietnamese government to define its strategy and policies on rice in an effective and sustainable manner as well as alternative models of production and future scenarios until 2030. Steven Jaffee, the coordinator of...
