Australia will grant 300 scholarships to Vietnamese students this year, doubling last year’ figure, said Graham Alliband, director of the Australian Scholarship for Development in Vietnam (ASDiV). Under the ASDiV 2010, priority areas of study will...
The German government will provide EUR1.5 million in official development assistance (ODA) through the Organization for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) for a EUR1.65-million project to improve environment in Vietnam’s central city of Danang. ...
Foreign and domestic donors have pledged a combined of VND92.5 billion ($4.83 million) for a project to protect wildlife animals in the UNESCO-recognized Kien Giang World Biosphere Reserve this year. The reserve, covering a site of 1.15 million...
The Vietnamese government plans to build additional 30 earthquake observation stations with total investment of VND70-VND80 billion, raising total stations nationwide to 54, the Dai Doan Ket newspaper reported July 1. Vietnam needs to prepare...
Natural disasters damaged VND172 billion ($9 million) for Vietnam in the first six months of 2010, the General Statistics Office said July 1. The calamities left 33 deaths and injuries, destroyed 27,600 houses, 1,700 hectares of paddy and other...
The Japanese government has pledged to fund JPY2 billion ($22 million) for Vietnam to deal with climate change-caused natural disasters, the Tai Nguyen Moi Truong newspaper reported July 1. Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Mitsuo Sakaba and Vietnamese...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a VND1.39 trillion ($72.79 million) project to improve the quality of hydro-meteorological forecasts from now up to 2012, the government said on its website July 1. Of the total, nearly VND634...
People in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Ngai’s Ly Son district have been facing a sever shortage of domestic clean water over the past times, especially those on An Binh commune. This has been the longest shortage of water for ten recent years...
