The Vietnamese Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) and the International Labor Organization (ILO) held a seminar in Hanoi on November 15 to seek suggestions and proposals for designing a decree on domestic helpers. In fact,...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) Board of Directors has approved a technical assistance package of $4 million for food security project in eight Asian countries including Vietnam, foreign media reported. The project, Strategic Research for...
The World Bank (WB) provided a total of $9.83 billion in official development assistance (ODA) for 92 programs and projects in Vietnam by end-August, the State Bank of Vietnam said. Among those, 50 programs and projects with total investment of $6.4...
Luxembourg has funded EUR2.95 million to a EUR3.3 million project to improve quality of tourism human resources in Vietnam in the 2010-2012 period, the state-run Ha Noi Moi newspaper said Nov 19.This is the fourth time Luxembourg has assisted...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has committed to provide VND635 million ($30,400) to prevent HIV/AIDS, drugs and human trafficking in Vietnam’s northwestern province of Lao Cai, state media reported. The 33-month program will start this Nov....
The People’s Aid Coordinating Committee (PACCOM) of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) on Nov. 19 granted 50 scholarships, each worth VND1 million, to ethnic students in Van Quan district, in the northern mountainous province of...
World Vision, a charity organization, and P&G Singapore Company, have presented a kindergarten school to Hoang Hanh Commune, Tien Lu District, in the northern province of Hung Yen. The construction of the kindergarten is part of a program to...
Some five thousand people joined a charity walk in Ho Chi Minh City to raise funds for the poor on November 14. The fourth ‘Unity for the Poor’ walk was attended by Chairwoman of the municipal People’s Council Pham Phuong Thao and Chairman of the...
On November 14th, the Vietnam Association of Study Promotion, the Investment Newspaper and the Nam Dinh provincial Association of Study Promotion presented 104 scholarships to outstanding students who come from poor families in the province....
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has pledged to fund $34 million to rid Vietnam’s central airport of Danang of Agent Orange. The two-year project is aimed to ensure that plants can again grow in contaminated land, the...
