More than 200 educational experts from Japan and Vietnam gathered at a conference in Ho Chi Minh City on Dec 21 to share experience in preschool education and discuss measures to boost bilateral ties. Vietnam is trying its best to improve quality of...
The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) will fund 11.5 billion won (approximately $10 million) for construction of the Vietnam-Soutth Korea Technological College in Vietnam’s northern province of Bac Giang. The agency will send experts to...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training has required localities to reexamine the operation of private kindergartens, which have recently been at the center of several serious cases of child maltreatment. Unlicensed and poor quality private...
HCM City Housing Development Commercial JS Bank (HDBank) has signed a contract to provide a soft credit line of up to VND2 trillion to coffee bean suppliers of Vinacafe Buon Me Thuot JS Company. The contract was signed at a ceremony held by Vinacafe...
The Chinese Consul General in Ho Chi Minh City, Xu Mingliang, on December 22 handed over VND410 million ($21.02 million) to the “Fund for the Poor” of Vietnam’s southern province of Binh Duong. The sum was contributed by 23 Chinese companies and...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has agreed to set up a steering committee for repairing consequences of bombs and mines left in the Vietnam War. The committee led by the Prime Minister, minister of national defense and minister of labor,...
A photograph of a nine-year-old Vietnamese girl Nguyen Thi Ly with birth defects resulting from the Agent Orange during the Vietnam War has been named UNICEF’s 2010 Photo of the Year. The photo, taken by American Ed Kashi, was selected out of 1,263...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved four healthcare projects using official development assistance (ODA) of Italy, the government said on its website, giving no detail about the projects’ investment. Those projects will focus on...
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has funded nearly $3 million for disability support projects in Vietnam’s central city of Danang since Oct 2008. The funding has been provided via the U.S.’s non-governmental...
Vietnam is forecast to need VND100 billion ($5.13 million) for a reproductive health program next year, the Ha Noi Moi newspaper reported, citing the Ministry of Health (MoH). The MoH made the statement at a conference on sex, maternal and newborn...
