Tourism will ensure stable incomes for residents in buffer zones around national parks and will ensure better protection of the parks and the wildlife they shelter. Pham Hoang Nam reports.Tham Thi Men was everywhere at the same time. The 48-year-old...
Several illegal gold exploiters have illicitly hired land slated for rubber from the Co Tu ethnic people in Thua Thien Hue Province’s Thuong Long Commune. There are now a total of 5 unlicensed operations located in Hamlet No. 1 of Nam Dong District’...
Many charnel houses with special wood statues of Co To ethnic minority people are preserved in Thuong Long commune in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue. Co Tu people’s charnel-houses are built along forest edge. The size of charnel-houses...
- Yasuo Nishitohge, CEO of Aeon Vietnam Co. Ltd., hands scholarships to students of Japanese at the HCMC University of Social Sciences and Humanities on Thursday. Nguyen Hoang Bao Khuyen, project development manager of Aeon Vietnam, said the parent...
The Saudi Arabian government has agreed to provide $37 million in official development assistance (ODA) in two infrastructure projects in two Vietnam’s central provinces of Quang Tri and Phu Yen. This was released at a recent meeting between...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and authorities of Vietnam’s biggest city of Ho Chi Minh May 17 signed a $500 million loan contract for metro route No. 2, state media reported on May 18. The loan agreement to this effect was signed by Principal...
The French Development Agency (AFD) will annually provide EUR80 million-EUR100 million in official development assistance (ODA) for Vietnam’s water and environment sanitation projects by 2015. Of the sum, 30% will be spent on clean water supply...
The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) will provide non-refundable aid to help the central province of Quang Tri implement development projects from 2012 to 2015. An agreement to this effect was signed in Quang Tri on May 19 by...
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will continue supporting Vietnamese Agent Orange (AO) victims, state media quoted the agency’s Deputy Administrator, Donald Steinberg as saying at the meeting with Vietnamese Deputy Prime...
Experts from Vietnam and the U.S. have participated in a conference concerning technologies to remediate dioxin-contaminated Danang airport, one of hot spots for Agent Orange residue left from the Vietnam War. Of the technologies, experts discussed...
