The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a loan of $80 million for Vietnam to upgrade roads in remote northern provinces, home to various ethnic minority communities. The bank said the road rehabilitation project would improve about 300...
The World Bank (WB) has pledged to fund $46 million for 11 poverty reduction projects in Vietnam’s central province of Thanh Hoa in the 2004-2016 period. Local authorities in collaboration with the WB held a conference on Oct 4 to review the...
Vietnam has been accelerating efforts to cut the leprosy rate and root out the disease by 2015 in line with the National Leprosy Eradication Program. The information was released at a conference in the central highlands province of Lam Dong on Sept...
Vietnam has attracted only $22 million worth of foreign direct investment (FDI) in two health and social support projects in the first nine months this year. The figure accounts for just 0.22% of the country’s total FDI of $9.9 billion during the...
Authorities of Vietnam’s northern province of Phu Tho have approved a plan to build four hospitals in Viet Tri city next year, the Tuoi Tre newspaper reported. Located on a total site of 30.6ha in Van Phu ward in Phuong Lau commune, the hospital...
Dengue fever is estimated to have affected 9,215 people in Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City in the first nine months of this year, claiming five lives. The figure of infection cases represents an on-year rise of 1.6 times, the Ha...
Authorities of Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City have decided to approve a total investment of VND47.32 trillion ($2.27 billion) for Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien metro route. Of the sum, VND41.83 billion was lent from the Japan...
Authorities of Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City Sept 26 worked with officials from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on a $40 million loan for metro route No.2. The loan will be used for the first phase which focuses on preparation...
The Global Competitiveness Facility under the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) has launched a program to assist Vietnamese enterprises in the 2011-2013 period. Under the program, GCF will provide VND216 billion ($10.3 million) as non...
On the occasion of the August Revolution and National Day (September 2), the Vietnam Embassy in Morocco in the capital of Rabat made generous donations to support Agent Orange/Dioxin victims in Vietnam. All staff of the Embassy and a large number of...
