Ho Chi Minh City Management Authority for Urban Railways Sept 8 signed a cooperative agreement with a representative of the Spanish government to build the first phase of $1.85 billion metro route 5. The first phase of the route, which has a...
The Culture-Tourism Village of Vietnamese ethnic groups is scheduled to open on September 19 as a project in celebration of Thang Long-Hanoi millennium anniversary. Located on a 1,544-ha area in Dong Mo, Son Tay of Hanoi, the site is a complex of...
A resettlement program reserved for nomadic ethnic minority people has been carried out too slowly and needs to gather all the available resources to accomplish all of its goals by 2012, a supervising agency has said. The Nationality Council under...
VIEGRID Communication and Technology Company and Research for Development of Mountainous Region and Ethnic Minorities (RDME) have granted scholarships worth VDN180 million to help poor students in Vietnam’s central province of Thanh Hoa. The...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Planning and Investment coordinated with the World Bank (WB) to launch the second phase of the Northern Mountains Poverty Reduction Project in Hanoi on Sept 9, Deputy Minister Cao Viet Sinh said. Of the $165-million sum, $...
Sponsors from central Ha Tinh Province and HCM City, and the Ha Tinh Association of Victims of Agent Orange, offered 164 gifts and scholarships worth VND700 million ($35,900) to children and families affected by Agent Orange on Sept 3. The Vietnam...
Over 300 Vietnamese and German people joined a charity walk for Vietnamese Agent Orange /dioxin victims, in Bochum city, Germany , on September 9. First Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union’s Central Committee Vo Van Thuong, Vietnamese...
The UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will help Vietnam to complete dossier on the 72,000-hectare Cat Tien National Park to submit to the organization for recognition as world natural heritage, said Chief of UNESCO’s Hanoi...
The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) forum on climate change adaptation will take place in Vietnam’s northern province of Quang Ninh on Sept 6-7, the Vietnam Environment Administration said on its website Aug 31. The event, chaired by the Ministry of...
The Department of Natural Resources and Environment of Ho Chi Minh City has demanded the city government to spend VND16 billion ($820,500) on equipping automatic wastewater monitors in centralized industrial parks (IPs). The move follows a series of...
