General News

  • Authorities of Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi will start a VND60 billion ($2.91 million) project to build a waste landfill in the outlying district of Ba Vi. Covering on a site of 5.5 hectares, the project will include the construction of a rubbish...
    Monday, 25th July, 2011
  • Authorities of Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi will issue new policies to encourage enterprises and investors to build preschools in the city in the future. The move aims to bring education chance to more children of this age, said Chairman of the...
    Monday, 25th July, 2011
  • The U.S.’s Asia Foundation and the Vietnam Study Encouragement Association on July 17 handed over scholarships to 53 poor high-school students in the Red river delta province of Nam Dinh. Each of the students, who achieved outstanding academic...
    Monday, 25th July, 2011
  • In the 2011-2012 school year, the International Faculty under Hanoi National University will provide short-term and long-term scholarships. The total scholarship of the faculty for students in Vietnam is over VND4 million. A seminar on enrollment in...
    Monday, 25th July, 2011
  • Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi needs to build an additional 1,600 schools from now to 2030 to satisfy the education demand. Of the total, 1,014 are preschools, 310 are primary schools and 274 are general schools, the An Ninh Thu Do newspaper...
    Monday, 25th July, 2011
  • A $4 million Japanese fund will provide Vietnamese university graduates with an opportunity to study in Japan and hone advanced levels skills in human resource training.  Yasuaki Tanizaki, Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam and Pham Vu Luan,...
    Monday, 25th July, 2011
  • Authorities of Vietnam’s northern province of Nam Dinh July 11 started a clean water supply and environmental sanitation project in rural areas with a total investment of VND248 billion ($11.98 million).This is part of a rural tap water supply and...
    Monday, 18th July, 2011
  • Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi will implement 35 projects to improve the environment pollution for local craft villages in the 2011-2015 period, in a bid to protect the environment and human health. This is part of the city’s plan on preserving and...
    Monday, 18th July, 2011
  • Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem has approved the negotiation result of a $160-million loan from the World Bank (WB) for a water resources management project in the Mekong Delta region, the online newspaper baocantho.com.vn reported....
    Monday, 18th July, 2011
  • The World Bank (WB) has pledged to finance $200 million more for the second phase of an environmental sanitation improvement project in Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City, said Alain Barbu, Operations and Portfolio Manager of WB....
    Monday, 18th July, 2011