The General Secretary of Mexico’s Labor Party (PT), Senator Alberto Anaya Gutiérrer and the Vietnam-Mexico Friendship Parliamentarians group have donated 120 wheelchairs to support Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange (AO). The donations were handed...
Vietnam is seeking $500 million from domestic and international sources to help clear war-era bombs and mines as well as land contaminated by unexploded ordnance (UXO) next years. Vietnam already has available $200 million to demine 500,000...
German Reconstruction Bank (KfW) has agreed to provide EUR10 million ($13.3 million) in official development assistance (ODA) loans to Vietnamese vocational schools to improve their teaching quality and training capacity. An agreement to this effect...
The Danish government has signed four cooperative documents to provide a total of DDK162.7 million ($29.15 million) for development projects in Vietnam, the state-run Vietnam News Agency said. Of the sum, DDK60 million will be funded to public...
Denmark has committed to provide VND28 billion ($1.34 million) in aid to help Vietnam maintain reduce poverty. An agreement to this effect was signed by Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Bui Ba Bong and Deputy Head of...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Vietnamese Government yesterday signed a loan agreement of $80 million to fund road upgrades in six remote provinces in the northern mountainous region. The loan would finance improvements on 300km of unpaved...
Dengue fever is estimated to have affected roughly 60,000 Vietnamese people between Jan and Nov, claiming 52 lives, the government’s General Statistics Office (GSO) said. The figures include eight deaths out of a total 17,800 dengue fever patients...
Vietnam is estimated to have disbursed VND857 billion ($40.8 million) worth of state funds for health projects in the first eleven months of this year, meeting 95.3% of the whole year’s set target. The figure represents an on-year slight rise of 5.7...
Health authorities of Vietnam’s southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau have started building a general hospital worth more than VND300 billion ($14.29 million), state media reported. Located on a 5.7-ha site in Vung Tau city, the 370-bed hospital will...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Health will spend an estimated VND160 billion ($7.62 million) on preventing dengue fever in 2012, heard a meeting to review the disease fight work this year. The move is aimed to limit the infection and death rates of the...
