The British Council and Ho Chi Minh City’s Investment and Trade Promotion Center (ITPC) have signed a memorandum of understanding on the cooperation to develop creative industries in Vietnam’s southern metropolis. Under the MoU, the British Council...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Transport is seeking a $1-billion loan from the World Bank (WB) to build Nghi Son-Bai Vot expressway in the central region in 2011-2014 period, the Dau tu newspaper reported Aug 4. The 94.1-kilometer highway, which will...
International non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have pledged more than VND111 billion ($5.81 million) in aid for 68 social projects and programs in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Nam since early this year. The funding has gone to the fields...
The Danish government said that it will grant VND200 billion ($10.99 million) for Vietnamese companies in 2011-2013 to strengthen their global competitiveness, the Thoi bao Kinh te Saigon newspaper reported, citing an official. The fund is a part of...
Cambodia will allocate 100,000 hectares of land soon for Vietnam to implement its rubber planting projects, the state-run Vietnam News Agency said, citing Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen. Hun Sen made the pledge at a meeting with Vietnamese Deputy...
General Director of Taiwan’s Formosa Group, Wu Guo Xing, has said the group would raise its investment in a steel and port complex in central Vietnam to $23 billion from the current $16 billion. The official announced the information during his two-...
Danish International Development Assistance (DANIDA)’s the Global Competitiveness Facility (GCF) will grant $11 million to 40 projects to raise competitiveness of Vietnamese agricultural and fishery firms in the 2011-2013 period, the Tuoi Tre...
Vietnam and the U.S. signed Aug 5 a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the assistance project to implement the labor law and boost harmonized relations among industries in the Southeast Asian country. Under the MoU, the U.S. government will fund $...
Electricity of Vietnam supplies power to nearly 100,000 ethnic minority households in the Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) provinces of Dak Lak, Dak Nong, Lam Dong, Gia Lai and Kon Tum. The facility and the Government have invested VND1.3 trillion ($...
A TV series on the culture and lifestyle of the ethnic Khmer people living in Vietnam's southwest region will be filmed this week. The 30-part work, titled Hay Cung Em Dieu Sarikakeo (Join Me in the Sarikakeo Dance), is being made by Vang Mien Nam (...
