Authorities of Vietnam’s central province of Quang Ngai have approved a project to build a waste treatment plant in the island district of Ly Son with a total investment of VND104 billion ($6.73 million). The facility is capable of treating around...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a legal framework for an urban water supply and wastewater project worth $200 million funded by the World Bank (WB). The project is aimed to upgrade water supply and wastewater treatment systems...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment are speeding up procedures to establish the Department of Climate Change in a move to better cope with its impacts. The setup aims to assist the Department of Meteorology, Hydrology and...
Vietnam is estimated to have lost VND4.3 trillion ($206.73 million) from natural disasters in the first nine months of this year , the government’s General Statistics Office (GSO) said. Natural calamities have also left 125 dead and missing;...
The Vietnamese embassy in Cambodia has joined hands with the Overseas Vietnamese Association to launch an urgent support campaign for Vietnamese people severely hurt by recent floods in the neighboring country. The embassy has sent 5 tons of rice...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a list of the Government Internet Data Center (GIDC) project funded by South Korea’s official development assistance (ODA). The Ministry of Information and Communication is asked to conduct the...
Authorities of Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City Sept 29 signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on $40 million loan for metro route No.2 with officials from the Asian Development Bank (ADB). ADB asked for the signing after it...
South Korea will continue to provide official development assistance (ODA) for Vietnam next years, Ambassador Chan Ho Ha said at a seminar in the capital city of Hanoi on Sept 29. The state-run Tuoi tre newspaper cited Ha as saying that the...
More than VND4.1 trillion ($197 billion) will be spent on building and upgrading boarding schools in mountainous provinces during the 2011-15 period under a new decision signed by the Prime Minister.The project aims at helping to provide at least...
The Ho Chi Minh City police have saved 23 ethnic minority children who had been employed illegally at two unlicensed sewing factories. The children, 12-16 years old, are of the Kh’Mu ethnic minority in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien...
