Around 160 young Overseas Vietnamese (OV) will attend the opening of Vietnam Summer Camp 2012 at the Culture-Tourism Village of Vietnamese Ethnic Minorities in Hanoi on July 12. This annual event held by the National Committee for Overseas...
The Government Ethnic Minorities Committee held a conference in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai on June 29 to review five years of the ethnic minority household resettlement policy according to Government Decision No.33/Q?-TTg....
- The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), has recently handed over the training equipments to the Lien Hao Kindergarten in Kien Thiet Commune, Tien Lang District, Hai Phong City. This support is within the project on improvement of pre-...
Belgian Universite libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and Hanoi University on June 22 signed an agreement on training human resources for Vietnam’s tourism industry. The signing ceremony was held in Brussels with ULB rector, Didier Viviers, and Hanoi...
The government of Vietnam has sought an approval from the Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang for $200 million loans from the World Bank (WB) to serve the reform of the country’s power sector which is yet put under competitive mechanism. The loans...
A workshop co-organized by Vietnam’s National Power Transmission Company (NTP) and the World Bank (WB) opened in Hanoi on June 19 has helped Vietnam seek better measures to modernize its out-dated system. The workshop focused on smart grid solutions...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Construction has begun a project on upgrading urban areas in the Mekong Delta with $294.5 million funded by the World Bank (WB), the state-run Vietnam News Agency said. The $398 million project Mekong Delta Region – Urban...
The World Bank (WB) has pledged to provide a loan of $250 million for Vietnam to carry out the urban development project in northern mountainous provinces in the 2012-2014 period. The commitment was made at a meeting on June 25 between...
The government of India has decided to fund $3 million to help Vietnam preserve My Son sanctuary which was recognized one of the world’s cultural heritage sites by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1999...
Around £5,000 (VND170 million) was raised for Vietnamese Agent Orange victims at a meeting organized by British Members of Parliament (MPs) and the Vietnamese embassy on June 18. At the meeting, Ambassador Vu Quang Minh reviewed important recent...
