The World Bank (WB) has approved a $160-million loan to a water resources management project in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta region, the Doanh Nhan Vietnam Toan Cau newspaper reported June 9. The project is aimed to protect and boost the use of water...
Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi is estimated to need VND15.49 trillion ($751.94 million) for expanding the clean water supply network in the city and neighboring areas from now to 2015, state media reported June 10. The information was released at a...
Up to 70% of wastewater treatment facilities at Vietnamese hospitals are substandard, seriously polluting the environment and doing harm to local people’s health, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said.Vietnam now has nearly 1,200 hospitals and over 200...
The governments of Australia and Germany will fund $63.7 million to help carry out the Climate Change and Coastal Ecosystems Program (CCCEP) in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta region until 2016, sate media reported. An agreement to this effect was inked in...
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in Vietnam June 8 launched a sub-project entitled “Annamites Carbon Sinks and Biodiversity” to prevent deforestation and forest degradation in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue. This is part of the “Avoidance of...
Vietnam will raise learning-purposed loans to VND1 million from the current level of VND900,000 from August 1, 2011, according to Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung’s recent decision. The government chief has assigned the Ministry of Finance to...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has announced that the country will spend VND70 trillion ($3.39 billion) on a project to reform textbooks and improve education quality for general schools from now to 2017. Vu Dinh Chuan,...
Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi has planned to spend $300 million on a project to move five universities and colleges to outlying districts from now to 2015. The sum excludes the capital for site clearance compensation, the Ha Noi Moi newspaper...
Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNUH) has been named among 200 leading schools in Asia under the 2011 Asian University Rankings by Subject recently released by Quacquarelli Symonds, a company specializing in education and study abroad. The...
The South Korea government will provide $3 billion in official development assistance (ODA) for Vietnam in the 2011-2015 period, 2.5 time higher than the figure in 1996-2010, New Ambassador Ha Chan Ho said at a press briefing in Hanoi June 8. “...
