South Korean enterprises operating in Vietnam have granted $8.2 million to social projects in the country over the past three years, said Park Noh Wan, Minister Counselor of the Korean Embassy in Vietnam. The information was released at a press...
Panasonic Group announced on September 8 that it plans to invest an additional $84 million to expand its business in Vietnam in next several years, raising its total investment in this emerging market to $224 million. With positive growth, political...
The Thua Thien-Hue Provincial Fatherland Front Committee and Vietinbank have handed over 105 houses of great unity, schools and a community house, to needy ethnic minority families in Pa Ay Village, Hong Thuy Commune, who were victims of storm “...
The Vietnamese prime minister Sept 5 asked the Ministry of Finance to provide 3,070 tons of rice from the national reserves for hunger relief in the central province of Quang Nam. Beneficiaries who are suffering from loss in the 2010-2011 winter-...
Vietnamese Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has called on the central province Thanh Hoa’s Muong Lat district to take measures to reduce poor households and boost its GDP in rural area. He made the statement during a two-day visit to the...
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has urged the central province of Quang Binh to fully tap its potentialities to boost poverty reduction and sustainable growth. The Prime Minister made the point during his latest tour of the central province of Quang...
Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc had a working session with leaders of Dien Bien province on September 6 to examine the implementation of the Party Politburo’s Resolution 37 on the northern midland region’s socio-economic development....
The People’s Committee of Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh has approved a cooperation program on vocational training with the U.S., marking the first of this kind licensed in the city to date. Accordingly, Ho Chi Minh City Vocational...
Deputy Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Vinh Hien said at a press conference on August 31 in Hanoi, that knowledge overload in schools will be reduced substantially from the next academic school year. The ministry action plan to reduce the...
Vietnam is estimated to have lost VND225 billion ($10.82 million) from natural disasters in August, the government’s General Statistics Office (GSO) said. Natural calamities have also left seven dead and missing, damaged over 274 houses and...
