The Norway People’s Aid (NPA), a non-governmental organization (NGO), will grant $2.9 million to a wartime bombs and mines clearance project in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Tri in the 2012-2014 period. Under the agreement signed on Nov 28...
Authorities of Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi have announced that they will spend VND10 trillion-VND12 trillion on upgrading schools in the 2011-2015 period in an effort to improve the training quality.As many as 29 districts and towns will benefit...
All private vocational training schools must have a minimum charter capital of VND22.5 billion ($1.07 million) under a newly-issued circular of the Education and Training Ministry. The schools must also have a total area of at least 2ha, as well as...
The Vietnamese prime minister has approved a flood and drought risk management and mitigation project worth $63.91M in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) countries. Of the sum, $45 million will come from the Asian Development Bank (ADB)’s loan and $...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) will join hands with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in coping with negative impacts of climate change next years.The ministry’s Hydro-Meteorological and Climate Change...
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in Vietnam Nov 22 held a conference in the central highlands city of Dalat to discuss ways to prevent the illegal trade of wild animals and plant species. The World Wildlife Fund and TRAFFIC (a wildlife trade monitoring...
The Vietnamese prime minister has decided to allocate VND135 billion ($6.43 million) from the state budget provision and 3,600 tons of rice from the national reserves for seven flood-hit provinces in the central region. Of these, Thanh Hoa province...
Six people from the same family in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Binh on Wednesday were hospitalized in critical condition after eating unknown mushrooms alleged to be poisonous. The victims, between 13 and 55 years old, were admitted to Tuyen...
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is showing its interest in a project on building a clean water supply plant in Vietnam’s southern city of Can Tho, a Japanese official said. JICA’s Director General for Private Sector Partnerships,...
Prices of clean water in Vietnam may rise by 17%-100% in the future under the Finance Ministry’s new draft circular. Under the draft, the water prices in special urban areas, urban areas Type 1 will rise to VND3,500-VND18,000 per cubic meters, up 17...
