Vietnam’s central province of Thua Thien Hue spent VND38 billion ($1.94 million) to build three resettlement areas for ethnic people. The projects are slated for completion in 2012, the Phap luat Tp HCM newspaper reported on Oct 14. Local authority...
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Japanese Showa Women University (SWU) are conducting a project on preservation of a Vietnamese ancient village in Hanoi. The project on preserving Duong Lam ancient village is regarded as “an...
Vietnam will start a $100-million project funded the World Bank (WB) to increase capacity of government agencies in facilitating public investments today [Oct 13], the Dau tu newspaper reported Oct 13. The project, which is slated for completion in...
Hong Kong-based Sun Wah Group has granted $1 million for projects of health, education and art in Vietnam. Of the total, $700,000 will be spent for health projects, particularly community healthcare, and the rest for education and art, the Sai Gon...
A delegation of the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) in Japan has made a field trip to Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi, to discuss a project on producing electricity from industrial waste. The project is estimated...
A strange bomb has been found by a local resident in Dakrong district, Vietnam’s central province of Quang Tri. Local authorities have not yet identified what is kind of the bomb, the Dat Viet newspaper reported Oct 14. (Dat Viet- National Land Oct...
Ha Long City's Military Command defused a 150-kg bomb which was found by a local resident in the city in the northeastern province of Quang Ninh on Oct 12. (VNS Oct 15)
The Vietnamese Prime Minister has approved 14 sub-projects under the first phase of an urban water supply and wastewater treatment project worth $200 million to be funded by the World Bank (WB), the government said on its website Oct 4. Of the total...
The Vietnamese Prime Minister has approved a $154 million project on reducing water leakage and expanding water supply networks of Saigon Water Corporation (Sawaco) between 2011 and 2015. Of the sum, $138 million was funded by the Asian Development...
The Vietnamese Prime Minister has approved a project for biodiversity preservation in the forest ecosystems funded by the German government through the German Organization for Technical Cooperation (GTZ). The project comprises EUR3 million from the...
