The gov’t has invested billions of dong in the water supply and irrigation system in Krong Pa District in Gia Lai Province, which residents say they have little use of, as most don’t use tap or well water for daily use and the canal has no...
- Taiwan has granted $200,000 to a mushroom farming project in a bid to help improve the livelihoods of landmine victims in central Vietnam. Since 2009, Taiwan has been joining hands with the U.S.-based nonprofit organization Humpty Dumpty Institute...
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has granted $300,000 to help Vietnam carry out a project on combating avian and human influenza from now up to mid-2013. The project, approved by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development...
The French Development Agency (AFD) will provide EUR80 million-EUR100 million per year in official development assistance (ODA) during Vietnam’s socio-economic development from 2012 to 2015, Jean-Marc Gravellini, AFD director in Vietnam said....
The Japanese government provided a total of $32.47 million in non-refundable loan for 434 development projects in Vietnam since its resume providing ODA for the Southeast Asian nation to end-2011. In the fiscal year 2011, the Japanese government...
Vietnam expected the World Bank (WB) to continue supporting it in pursuing development goals, provide policy consultancy and share experience in dealing with bank bad debts, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said. Dung made the statement at a meeting...
Vietnam is facing difficulties in detecting and disposing post-war bombs, mines and explosives for geographical factors while they remain an annual peril to many local residents, experts said. Most of the areas polluted by bombs and mines have...
Hundreds of UXOs were exposed May 10 as work began on setting up a pig farm in Nghe An Province in north central Vietnam. Hundreds of bombs have been found in Nghe An Province in north central Vietnam as work began last week on establishing a big...
The Australia-based Rotary Club of Mosman (RCM) May 16 donated 40 wheelchairs to help Agent Orange (AO) victims and disable people in Vietnam’s northern province of Nam Dinh. The beneficiaries are disadvantaged people in ten districts of the...
Authorities in Vietnam’s southern province of Ben Tre have built 11,371 houses for the poor over the past three years with a total investment of VND245.9 billion. Among those, 80% are 32-sq.m houses and 5% are 62-sq.m houses, the Nhan Dan online...
