The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Southern of Institute for Water Resources Planning April 28 signed a $2-million agreement on dealing with impacts of climate change in the Mekong Delta region until 2013. The project is aimed...
The United States on April 26 welcomed a delay in construction of Laos’s Xayaburi dam project and hoped that ASEAN nations could work out an environmentally sound solution, the U.S. State Department said in a statement.“The U.S. government welcomes...
The Sai Gon Water Supply Co (Sawaco) April 24 put into operation a fresh water supply system worth over VND821 billion ($39.28 million) in Can Gio district in Vietnam’s southern metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City after over one-year construction. The...
Vietnam is estimated to have recorded 22 food poisoning cases in the first four months of this year, affecting over 1,400 people with six fatalities, the government’s General Statistics Office (GSO) said.The number of such cases, affected people and...
Japanese Red Cross Society (JRCS) has funded $2.7 million to plant mangrove forests in Vietnam’s coastal areas in 2011-2015 in an effort to curb disaster risks in the Southeast Asian country which is listed among five hardest-hit nations by climate...
Vietnam has extended the operational time for Atlantic Philanthropies (AP), the U.S. non-governmental organization to operate in the country. Chairman of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organizations (VUFO), Permanent member of the Committee for...
Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City approved two projects and received 20 non-project aid packages valued at $8.3 million from international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) in the first quarter of this year. The information...
The World Bank (WB) has approved to provide a loan of $330 million to the state-run Electricity of Vietnam Group (EVN) to develop the 260-MW Trung Son hydropower project in the central province of Thanh Hoa. The plant will be the first of its kind...
The Prime Minister has approved the Ministry of Finance's plan to provide free rice for students at boarding schools for ethnic minorities in rural areas for nine months. (Vietnam News April 25)
An exhibition featuring 23 black-and-white photos of poor children of the Hmong ethnicity in northern Vietnam has been opened in Hanoi. Titling his exhibition “Look”, photographer Dang Xuan Truong hopes to make people aware of the hard life of the...
