More than 208 workers of Sametex International Garment Co., Ltd, a wholly foreign-invested firm in Vietnam’s southern province of Long An, were hospitalized due to food poisoning on Dec 16. The workers reportedly suffered symptoms of stomachache and...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will fund total $69 million for forest conservation projects in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, the bank said Dec 13. The fund aims to protect more than 1.9 million hectares of threatened forest land which is home to...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a financial package worth $1.1 billion for two major transportation projects to help unclog overcrowded roadways in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s southern economic hub. Of the sum, ADB will provide $540...
Hundreds of local and foreign experts gathered at a conference in Hanoi on Dec 13 to discuss measures to provide children with best education methods and social services, state media reported. The event chaired by Swedish ambassador to Vietnam...
The government of Norway will fund $100 million to continue the project on protecting forests from emission reduction in Vietnam, state media reported. The fund is in line with the United Nations Collaborative initiative on Reducing Emissions from...
The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) helped organize an international conference to introduce a draft law on human trafficking prevention in Vietnam’s central province of Thua Thien-Hue from Dec 14-15. Through the Policy...
Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank (CACIB) will finance $8.4 billion for 40 development projects in Vietnam in the coming years, General Director Nguyen Nhon Quy said. The Dau tu newspaper quoted Quy as saying that the funding will go...
Canada’s Greely Group, which specializes on construction and telecommunication, has its desire to help Vietnam’s southern city of Can Tho develop its underground infrastructure system. Greenly will support Can Tho in building management rules and...
Numbers of poor households in urban areas in Vietnam, especially in two big cities of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, have tended to rise in 2010, showed a report by two non-governmental organizations of the Oxfam and ActionAids. Oxfam and ActionAids...
Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City has a higher poverty rate than Hanoi although the city reports higher average income, showed the 2009 Urban Poverty Survey (UPS-09). The survey, which was conducted between Oct and Nov 2009, is...
