Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister-Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem Jul 7conferred with the independent United Nations expert on minorities, Gay McDougall, who is on a ten-day visit to the Southeast Asian country beginning from July 5. At the...
The World Bank (WB) has pledged to finance $185 million for six Vietnamese development funds, aiming to support their financial capacity in investing in urban infrastructure projects. The funds are Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Binh Duong, Dong Nai...
Foreign donors granted a total of $6.8 million in aid to Ho Chi Minh City in the first six months of this year, Nguyen Thi My Tien, General Secretary of the city’s Union of Friendship Organizations, said at a meeting on July 8. Of the total, 60%...
The World Bank (WB) has provided $180 million in loans to help Vietnam build the Vietnam-Germany University (VGU) in Ho Chi Minh City. Covering a site of 45 hectares, 40 km from HCM City, the German-standard university will be built at a cost of $...
Vietnam needs about 20,000 health workers for HIV/AIDS prevention by 2020, including doctors, pharmacists, consultants, nursing workers. The figure was released at a conference on training human resources for the anti-HIV/AIDS work in Hanoi July 6,...
The health department of Vietnam’s central highlands province of Lam Dong has kick-started the construction of a general hospital worth VND495 billion ($25.92 million) from g-bond. The 500-sickbed hospital, to cover ten hectares in Bao Loc city,...
Authorities of Vietnam’s central province of Quang Ngai’s Ly Son district have spent VND40 million to buy clean water to help locals who are facing a severe shortage of water for daily life. This has been the most serious shortage of water for ten...
Up to 16 people in Vietnam’s central city of Danang were hospitalized July 5 due to food poisoning, the Cong An Nhan Dan newspaper reported July 6. The victims reportedly suffered from symptoms of stomachache, vomiting and diarrhea after attending a...
The Vietnamese government has approved the national target program on rural clean water supply and environmental sanitation for the period of 2011-2015, with total investment of more than VND54 trillion ($2.83 billion). Of the sum, VND21.8 trillion...
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will fund $3.1 million for a project to control greenhouse gas emission in Vietnam starting Sept. The Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the JICA have signed an agreement on...
