General News

  • Authorities of Vietnam’s central province of Quang Nam have decided to spend more than VND423 billion ($21.69 million) on a project of water drainage and wastewater treatment from now up to 2014. The project will be carried out in seven wards of Tam...
    Monday, 11th October, 2010
  • The number of dead and missing people in central Vietnam had climbed to 55 and 22 as of Oct 7 respectively, the Thoi Bao Kinh Te Sai Gon newspaper reported Oct 7. Floods beginning Oct 4 also caused an initial damage of nearly VND2.2 trillion ($112....
    Monday, 11th October, 2010
  • The Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training said that it would enroll 450 more state employees for doctoral training programs abroad this year from the state budget, state media reported Oct 05. Enrollees will include lecturers and staffs who...
    Monday, 11th October, 2010
  • Vietnam’s southern metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City has launched a soft skill training program for pupils and students of 80 schools, colleges and universities citywide, state media reported. The three-month program which began early Sept will provide...
    Monday, 11th October, 2010
  • The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed an agreement to finance $70 million for a vocational training project in Vietnam, state media reported. The project costs a total of $78 million with $8-million coming from the government of Vietnam’s...
    Monday, 11th October, 2010
  • The Vietnamese Ministry of Planning and Investment and the World Bank (WB) are working to review the WB-funded projects and seek ways to accelerate implementation paces of those.  Many WB-funded projects are being carried out at snail paces in...
    Monday, 11th October, 2010
  • Vietnamese Prime Minster Nguyen Tan Dung has approved to borrow $1.61 billion from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for an expressway project in the south.  Dung assigned the Ministry of...
    Monday, 11th October, 2010
  • The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has pledged to finance $10 billion for development projects in Vietnam in 2011-2015 period. The Manila-headquartered bank will focus on supporting infrastructure, environment, education and other several projects in...
    Monday, 11th October, 2010
  • Authorities of Vietnam’s southern province of Ca Mau have donated more than VND4 billion ($205,100) to help ethnic minority people in the 2009-2010 period. The funding is aimed to assist residential and production land as well as vocational training...
    Monday, 11th October, 2010
  • Workers of a transport company in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho found a bomb while transporting sand to a construction site. The 150 kilogram bomb was found in a truck belonging to Thanh Chau Company which was carrying sand from Can Tho to Ca Mau...
    Monday, 11th October, 2010