The Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has approved a master plan on a rural clean water supply and environmental sanitation project totaling VND1.04 trillion ($49.52 million) in the central region. Of the sum, VND945...
Vietnam is estimated to need n additional $259 million for preventing and fighting against tuberculosis (TB) in the 2011-2015 period, heard a meeting in Ho Chi Minh City on Nov 22. The country aims to halve the number of TB patients in 2015 and...
Russia agreed to lend Vietnam between $8 billion and $9 billion to build the first nuclear power plant Ninh Thuan 1, said Pham Minh Tuan, head of the state-run Electricity of Vietnam Group (EVN)’s Nuclear Power and Renewable Energy Projects Pre-...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) yesterday [November 24] approved a loan of $309.89 million to the $793.5-million O Mon 4 gas turbine combined cycle project in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta region.Currently, the state-run Electricity of Vietnam Group (EVN...
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation has provided non-refundable aid of 1.19 million euros for a project to reduce poverty through animal husbandry in the northern mountainous region. The project, worth more than 2.32 million euros in...
A number of international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have pledged to grant $4.68 million to Vietnam’s central province of Thanh Hoa. The commitment was made at a meeting to mobilize financial supports from international NGOs in Thanh Hoa...
The ActionAid International in Vietnam (AAV), a U.K.-based non-governmental organization, has pledged to more actively involve in poverty reduction activities in Vietnam next years. The commitment is part of AAV’s national program strategy entitled...
The Government has approved the outcomes of negotiations on a credit agreement for the Poverty Reduction Program V (Program Cluster) – Subprogram 3 between Vietnam and the Asian Development Bank. PM Nguyen Tan Dung has assigned Governor of State...
Daklak Province’s authorities have finally opened Dac Lak Museum, which is regarded as the biggest in the Highlands, reports Vietnam+.Daklak Museum is designed as an architectural imitation of nha dai (traditional long house) of Ede people, a local...
It will take Vietnam a few more centuries to clear hundreds of thousands of tons of bombs, mines and unexploded ordnances (UXO) left over from the Vietnam War that ended in 1975, said Hoang Minh Hong, deputy director of the Vietnam Bomb and Mine...
