The Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu’s Military Steering Committee defused two unexploded bombs and then used acid to destroy them on Aug 4. The bombs were believed to be MK 18s - were dropped during the American War; one weighed about 125...
The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) has organized a wide range of charity activities to support Agent Orange/dioxin victims nationwide on the occasion of the Agent Orange Day on August 10. A total of VND601 million and 22 wheelchairs, two houses and a...
Vietnam’s Mekong Delta provinces have invested over VND2 trillion in reducing poverty for Khmer ethnic minority people over the past ten years. The government’s Program 135 on assisting poorest communes benefited locals at 207 communes in the first...
Japan and Vietnam will sign agreements to provide $1 billion in official development assistance (ODA) for two seaport projects in Vietnam in September, the Lao dong newspaper reported July 29, citing Ambassador Mitsuo Sakaba. Construction of Lach...
U.S.-based Federal Owens - Meiwah International Holdings (FO MIH) has got a license to build a tourism complex in Vietnam’s central province of Ninh Thuan, said the local authorities. Covering an area of 250 hectares, the complex is designed to...
The U.S. Atlantic Philanthropies (AP) and the Australian Fred Hollows Foundation (FHF) have funded a combined $2.06 million for a project to improve the capability of medical workers in the Vietnam National Institute of Ophthalmology (VNIO)....
Vietnam reported 88 food poisoning cases since early this year, killing 32 people and affecting nearly 3,000 others, Deputy Head of the Food Hygiene and Safety Department Nguyen Thanh Phong said. Compared to the same period of last year, the number...
Authorities of Vietnam’s southern province of Binh Phuoc have approved a construction project of clean water supply system worth VND657 billion ($34.4 million) to serve the daily life and agriculture production, the state-run Vietnam News Agency...
The World Bank (WB) will fund additional $65.27 million to a clean water supply and environmental sanitation project in rural areas of the Red River Delta region in the period of 2006-2013, the Vietnamese government said on its website July 28....
The Dutch government plans to fund EUR9 million in aid for a project on water source management, response to climate change and agriculture development in Vietnam, the Ha Noi Moi newspaper reported July 27. This is part of a program on the...
