Vietnam will organize the 6th international conference on community-based adaptation to climate change in mid-April 2012, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said. The six-day event is expected to attract around 250 delegates,...
As many as 218 workers at Japanese-invested IRISO Electronics Co., Ltd in Vietnam’s northern province of Hai Duong suffered food poisoning after having lunch at the company’s canteen on July 6.Among the affected cases, some pregnant women and 26...
The World Bank (WB) has pledged to lend $200 million to an urban water supply and wastewater project in Vietnam, the government said on its website late July 13. The State Bank of Vietnam’s governor Nguyen Van Giau and WB Country Director in Vietnam...
Only 15 state-owned hospitals in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi have been equipped with medical wastewater treatment facilities so far, making up 35% of its public hospitals, showed statistics by the municipal health department. Just 15 other...
Authorities of Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi have allowed My Way Hospitality JSC to build a center for sports and public health care with a total capital of VND157 billion ($7.58 million). Located on a site of 4,500 sq.m in Cau Giay district, the...
Civil servants and health staff working in the high-risk fields of healthcare services will get extra job allowances from this August 19 in a move to boost staff numbers by the government. Under a newly-issued prime ministerial decree, beneficiaries...
The Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists (VAPA) has launched a photography competition for 15 northern mountainous provinces. The 16th artistic photography event will highlight the beauty of the landscape and lives of ethnic minority groups...
Authorities in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong have decided to invest VND3 trillion ($143 million) on irrigation works in the province's ethnic region over the next ten years. The investment will come from the provincial budget and from a...
Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City has allocated VND34.528 trillion ($1.67 billion) from Japanese official development assistance (ODA) for its infrastructure projects. The Dau tu newspaper cited Thai Van Re, director of the...
Twelve foreign banks will provide loans of $1.46 billion for the Mong Duong 2 coal-fired power project in Vietnam’s northern coal hub province of Quang Ninh, the plant’s operator AES Corporation of the U.S said. The lenders are Korea Eximbank, KSURE...
