General News

  • The France-based Sanofi Group plans to build a high tech pharmaceutical plant in Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City, said Thomas Kelly, senior vice president of Sanofi Asia.Kelly released the information at a meeting with HCM City...
    Thursday, 8th September, 2011
  • India is ready to support Vietnam in the training of scientific experts, said Prof. Dr. Dinesh Abrol, President of the Indian Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). The Indian official made the statement at a working meeting with a...
    Tuesday, 6th September, 2011
  • Vietnamese Prime Minister has approved to add $297,000 to a HIV prevention project funded by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in an extension to March 31, 2012. The Ministry of Police will cooperate with the UNODC and Vietnamese...
    Tuesday, 6th September, 2011
  • Vietnam’s Center for Foreign Investment Studies (CFIS) and Ernst & Young, one of the world’s largest professional services firms, just inked a cooperative deal on establishing a charge-free advisory counter in Hanoi. Under the deal, Ernst &...
    Tuesday, 6th September, 2011
  • The Vietnam Fatherland Front in Thua Thien-Hue province in coordination with the Vietnam Bank for Industry and Trade (Vietinbank) has presented 105 houses and some other gifts to ethnic minority people in Hong Thuy village, A Luoi district. These...
    Tuesday, 6th September, 2011
  • The poverty rate among ethnic minority groups has been reduced from 47% in 2007 to 28.8% in 2010. The information was given at a seminar on poverty reduction and equality promotion for ethnic people, which was jointly held by the Vietnam Union of...
    Tuesday, 6th September, 2011
  • A total of VND115 million ($5,520) in scholarships was given to 103 poor students of Quang Ngai Province who passed the recent university entrance examination. The students came from low-income families and could not afford university tuition. The...
    Tuesday, 6th September, 2011
  • Vietnam is estimated to have recorded 18,800 hungry families in Aug, with 84,900 starveling people, down 38.6% and 34.3% on year, respectively, the government’s General Statistics Office (GSP) said.Most of the households are mainly in rural remote...
    Tuesday, 6th September, 2011
  • The British American Tobacco-Vinataba Joint Venture (BAT-Vinataba) on Tuesday handed more than 500,000 seedlings, worth over VND330 million, to farmers in the districts of Iapa, Phu Thien and Ayunpa of Gia Lai Province under the company’s...
    Tuesday, 6th September, 2011
  • Vietnamese and U.S. experts Aug 25 gathered at a meeting in Hanoi to share experiences in dealing with climate change and water resource management in Vietnam, state media reported. The comprehensive management of water resources is considered one...
    Monday, 29th August, 2011