The Denmark government will donate DKK4 million ($723,056) for building clean water supply systems using renewable energy in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta region from 2012 to 2014. The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and authorities of Can Tho City...
Australia and Germany have pledged to grant a total of $2.37 million as relief aid to people seriously affected by floods in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta region. Of the total, EUR1.4 million ($1.87 million) comes from the Germany government and AUD500,000...
The Japanese Red Cross has pledged to fund $2.76 million for a project on natural disaster risk reduction in Vietnam from now until 2015. Vietnam Red Cross Deputy Chairman Phung Van Hoan said at a workshop Nov 30 that the project is aimed to support...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Finance and the French Development Agency (AFD) signed the second loan agreement worth EUR20 million to help the former implement a national program on climate change adaptation. Accordingly, the preferential 20-year loan...
Ireland and Vietnam on Nov 28 signed a new cooperation agreement with an aim to increase the number of Vietnamese students taking third-level courses in the European country. Speaking at the signing ceremony in Hanoi, Irish Minister of State for...
Vietnam is calling on embassies and international organizations to assist it in carrying out a national English training project in the 2011-2020 period, which has been postponed due to teacher shortages and a dearth of funds. Deputy Minister of...
Vietnam and Belarus on Nov 29 sign an agreement on education and training cooperation in the presence of Prime Minister Mikhail Myasnikovich and his counterpart Nguyen Tan Dung. The agreement was part of many pacts inked between the two governments...
Vietnam is estimated to have recorded 609,600 hungry families between Jan and Nov, with 2.56 million starveling people, down 18.6% and 12% from a year earlier, respectively. The figures include 14,600 hungry households with 64,300 starveling people...
Authorities of Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi have decided to spend an additional VND103 billion ($4.9 million) to help build and repair houses for poor families this year. Of the sum, VND75.6 billion would be used for supporting the poor in 27...
A charity music was held for the third time in Ho Chi Minh City on December 1 to raise funds for poor overseas Vietnamese (OV) in Laos and Cambodia. The show was co-organized by the Sponsor Committee, the Fund for Overseas Vietnamese Communities (...
