300 children under 15 years old with congenital heart defects in Lam Dong province will be examined on October 15th at the Rehabilitation Hospital in Da Lat City with the support of Minh Vinh Khang (MVK) Commercial JSC-the investor of the project...
A 19-doctor delegation from the Republic of Korea (RoK) and Japan will offer free-of-charge surgeries to children with cleft lip and palate in Vietnam. The “Week of free surgery for children with cleft lip and palate,” which was co-organized from...
A Tokyo-based business will set up a joint-venture with a clean water company in Vietnam to build a large-scale water purification plant in Hanoi, Vice Mayor of Tokyo, Naoki Inose said. Accordingly, TSS, a clean water company based in Tokyo, and...
Vietnam is making efforts to build a monitoring system on climate change and sea level rise in order to put it into operation by 2015 in a move to cope with their impacts. The information was released at a conference on global climate change and...
Authorities of Vietnam’s central province of Ninh Thuan have approved a VND146 billion ($7 million) project on upgrading river dyke system in Phan Rang-Thap Chap city. The dyke system to be built in the northern bank of Dinh river is aimed to...
The government of Canada will launch an education week in Vietnam cities from Oct 23-29 this year, the Canada Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City said. The event will start in Ho Chi Minh City on Oct 23, in the central city of Danang on Oct 26, and...
The German Reconstruction Credit Institute (KfW) will lend EUR4.53 million to a project on purchasing medical equipment and managing hospital waste in Vietnam’s central province of Phu Yen. KfW and local authorities have signed a memorandum on...
The Australian government will provide AUD138 million ($132.99 million) in official development assistance (ODA) for Vietnam in 2011-2012, the Australian Embassy said. The embassy also noted that it started receiving document for the direct aid...
A delegation of the World Bank has arrived in Vietnam to help make assessment on the Southeast Asian nation’s management over public debt, the Tuoi Tre newspaper reported last week. The assessment will be based on DeMPA (Debt Management...
U.S. AES Corp, the biggest contributor to the $1.95-billion Mong Duong 2 coal-fired power project in Vietnam, has paid $32.4 million to the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade as a collateral to ensure the implementation of the facility....
