Spain’s BBVT Bank will provide a EUR100 million in loan for the first phase of $1.85 billion metro route 5, Head of Ho Chi Minh City Management Authority for Urban Railways, Le Khac Huynh said. Earlier, the Spanish government pledged EUR500...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has committed that will provide further support for infrastructure development in Vietnam next years, President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Haruhiko Kuroda said. Kuroda made the commitment at a recent...
Sweden will grant an aid of $1.7 million for Vietnam to organize about 40 activities to improve professional skills for Vietnamese journalists. The Swedish government-funded project on will be implemented by the press training centre in follow-up of...
The JS Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam or Vietcombank, has granted scholarships to 100 outstanding students in central highlands provinces so far this year. Beneficiaries are ethnic minority in the four localities of Dak Nong, Dak Lak,...
Vietnam’s steering committee for the south-western region has urged Khmer ethnic minority compatriots in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu to join hands with entire people to strengthen the national unity and upgrade living conditions. Son Song...
A seminar on implementation of the hunger eradication and poverty reduction policy for ethnic minorities and mountainous areas was held in Hanoi, on November 5, by the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Mass Mobilisation and the Committee for...
The Fund for the Poor of Vietnam southern city of Can Tho has mobilized nearly VND100 billion ($5.13 million) to help the poor so far this year. The city has handed over 1,069 charity houses and repaired 316 ones during the period, meeting 72% of...
Prudential Vietnam Life Insurance Company has launched the Voluntary Campaign 2010 between October and November at 19 provinces and cities nationwide. The campaign, “Live Green-Live Healthy”, started in Hanoi with a series of social activities for...
Social Policy Bank in Vietnam’s southern province of Binh Phuoc has lent a total of VND600 billion ($30.77 million) for the poor people since 2006. The move is aimed to help the locals to have capital to invest in production for better life, the Van...
Together with other provinces of Lao Cai, Lai Chau, Dak Lak and Dak Nong, Dien Bien has actively engaged in a poverty reduction programme funded by the European Committee and Danish CARE organization. The four-year project is worth nearly 1 million...
