The US-Vietnam Dialogue Group on Agent Orange/Dioxin last month proposed a 10-year plan to address the legacy of Agent Orange in Vietnam.
The Dialogue Group said in its Declaration and Plan of Action that it had two goals: cleaning dioxin-...
Authorities of Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi have approved a VND214 billion project to upgrade a clean water supply system in Ha Dong district beginning this year, the Thanh Nien newspaper reported June 23. Under the project, Ha Dong Water Supply...
The governments of Japan and France have provided a combined $134 million in official development assistance (ODA) for a support program to respond to climate change (SP-RCC) in Vietnam. Officials of the Vietnamese Ministry of Finance, the Japan...
Lien Aid, a Singaporean non-governmental organization (NGO), has pledged SGD1 million ($721,435) for a clean water and environmental sanitation project in Vietnam’s rural areas. Officials from Lien Aid and Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has named Vietnam’s Mekong Delta region among three hardest-hit delta regions by climate change worldwide. The information was released at a forum on natural conservation on the Mekong Delta...
Ho Chi Minh City needs VND41.8 trillion ($2.2 billion) for anti-flood projects in the next five years, the city’s management board of flood prevention projects said. In 2009, HCM City spent VND340 billion ($17.89 million) for 37 anti-flood projects...
U.S. oil giant Chevron Corp., Japanese Mitsui Oil Exploration Co., and Thai PTT Exploration and Production Public Co., Ltd (PTTEP) granted 750 scholarships totaling VND2.3 billion ($121,053) to Vietnamese disadvantaged children on June 18....
Ho Chi Minh City will need VND349 billion ($18.27 million) to build student dormitories in the 2011-2015 period, said the municipal People’s Committee June 21. The move aims to provide accommodations for 5,000 students by then, the Phap Luat Thanh...
Vietnam is now in shortage of 26,000 high school teachers, badly affecting the training quality at these schools, said the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET). Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City saw the highest shortage rate, the Ha Noi Moi newspaper...
Students in Vietnam are still not interested in vocational training, but in higher education, though their learning capability is not good enough, said the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET). In fact, the country does not lack schools for...
