Up to 90% of migrant workers across Vietnam are not covered by social insurance, especially healthcare services, heard a recent seminar on immigrant health in Hanoi. Newly-elected Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien estimated that 30% of urban...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has urged ministries and agencies to take drastic measures to prevent and control the spread of hand-foot-mouth disease, state media reported. The government leader has asked local authorities to provide...
The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has approved to grant $4.7 million to a technical training project in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Tri. The move aims to train skilled workforce for the local industry sector and for the...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Transport has proposed the Ministry of Planning and Investment to add Nghi Son-Bai Vot expressway into a list which will get loans from the World Bank (WB) in 2012-2014. The MoT expects to get a loan of $1 billion for the...
Ireland will continue providing more official development assistance (ODA) for Vietnam in the coming years, outgoing Ambassador Maeve Collins said at a recent meeting with Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in Hanoi. Collins noted that Ireland provided...
The Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) and the government of U.K. have signed an agreement to assist a project to check Vietnam’s business laws, the Quan doi nhan dan newspaper reported. The VCCI will work with the Government...
The Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) has launched a Business Partnership Program (DBP), which aims to support sustainable development and poverty reduction in its partner countries, including Vietnam. The program is part of the...
The People’s Committee in Vietnam’s northern city of Haiphong and the World Bank (WB) kicked off an urban transport development project on August 16. The five-year project is aimed to develop the city’s urban transport system and strengthen capacity...
The Cocoa Association of Asia (CAA) will provide a fund of $100,000 to assist Vietnamese farmers in southern provinces to apply best agricultural practices and improve the quality of cocoa beans under an agricultural extension agreement signed in Ho...
The World Bank (WB) will provide a $250 million loan to help upgrading urban area in the four Vietnamese northern provinces of Dien Bien, Bac Kan, Cao Bang and Thai Nguyen. The project is part of the national urban area upgrade strategy which will...
