General News

  • The U.K’s ReCycled Refused International Group (RCR) plans to invest a total of $8.92 billion in its projects in Vietnam under public-private partnership (PPP) form, the Dau tu newspaper reported Nov 29. Of the sum, RCR will pour $3.69 billion to...
    Monday, 6th December, 2010
  • Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung approved a project for promoting natural disaster management, with $900,000 non-refundable capital granted by the Global Capacity for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) under the World Bank (WB). Dung...
    Monday, 6th December, 2010
  • The Japanese government and some Osaka firms are studying methods for building railways in big cities in Vietnam to reduce traffic jams at the cities, the Dien dan Doanh nghiep newspaper reported Nov 30. Companies from Japan’s Osaka will seek...
    Monday, 6th December, 2010
  • The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will extend $95 million to help Vietnam and Laos upgrade roads in their transport corridor, the state-run Vietnam News Agency said Nov 30. It’s necessary to improve the section running the Vietnam's central province...
    Monday, 6th December, 2010
  • The UN Development Program (UNDP) has helped Vietnam hold a training course on improving management capacity for women in the southern metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City and the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau. The training course, the first of its...
    Monday, 6th December, 2010
  • The Spanish Agency of International Cooperation for Development (AECID) has made efforts to ease pains of Vietnamese victims of human trafficking cases through the launch of a project four years ago. The project named Ngoi Nha Binh Yen or a peaceful...
    Monday, 6th December, 2010
  • The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved an extension of a $60 million-equivalent loan for Vietnam to expand the country’s financial sector reforms, state media reported Dec 1. The loan aims to help develop the country’s non-bank financial...
    Monday, 6th December, 2010
  • Vietnam reported 35,900 hungry households in Nov, raising the total numbers of hungry families to 748,700 in the first eleven months of 2010, the General Statistics Office said Nov 29. The country reported 2.91 million people suffering from hunger...
    Monday, 6th December, 2010
  • The Vietnam Dairy Products Joint Stock Company (Vinamilk) scholarship fund will earmark VND2 billion scholarships to primary school children and to upgrade primary school facilities in the 2010-2011 academic year. At a press briefing in Hanoi on Nov...
    Monday, 6th December, 2010
  • Australian and Vietnamese experts plan to undertake research into economic integration and poverty reduction with funds from Australia. The grants, which were announced last Wednesday, will be provided through the Australian International Science...
    Monday, 6th December, 2010