General News

  • Ho Chi Minh City-based Building Materials and Construction Company has started the construction on a general hospital worth VND227.19 billion ($11.96 million) in the central province of Ha Tinh. Located in Thach Trung commune’s Thanh Phu hamlet, the...
    Monday, 21st June, 2010
  • Vietnam’s southern city of Can Tho June 15 recorded the first people contracting vibrio cholera, head of the municipal provision health center Nguyen Trung Nghia said. The patient, a 38-year-old woman from Cai Be district’s My Duc Tay commune in the...
    Monday, 21st June, 2010
  • The number of people contracting dengue fever in Mekong delta provinces has considerably soared so far this year, the Dat Viet newspaper reported June 17, citing a health official of Tien Giang province. Tien Giang has reported over 1,045 dengue...
    Monday, 21st June, 2010
  • The International Energy Agency (IEA) is willing to help Vietnam develop renewable energy sources, said Brett Jacobs, Southeast Asia Programs Manager under the IEA’s Directorate of Global Energy Dialogue. Jacobs made the statement at a talk with...
    Monday, 21st June, 2010
  • Foreign investors have disbursed $502.6 million in Vietnam’s southern province of Dong Nai since early this year, fulfilling 33.4% of the full-year target and rising 6.8 times from a year earlier.  During the period, the local authority has...
    Monday, 21st June, 2010
  • Vietnam is effectively using official development assistance (ODA) capital for development projects, the state-run Vietnam News Agency said June 16, citing an official from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The official made the...
    Monday, 21st June, 2010
  • South Korea’s C&N Vina Hue Co., Ltd has been licensed to carry out a VND368 billion ($19.36 million) infrastructure project at Phong Dien Industrial Park (IP) in Vietnam’s central province of Thua Thien-Hue. The firm plans to start construction...
    Monday, 21st June, 2010
  • Norwegian authorities have pledged to continue providing official development assistance (ODA) for Vietnam in next years, the state-run Vietnam News Agency said June 17. The commitment was made during Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai...
    Monday, 21st June, 2010
  • Great Asia Commercial Bank (DaiA Bank) has borrowed VND30 billion from the World Bank (WB) funds to facilitate an agricultural financing project in the southern province of Dong Nai. The project, which is in its third phase, aims to develop the...
    Monday, 21st June, 2010
  • Russia is willing to help Vietnam build safety and security standards as well as legal documents for nuclear power projects, said Kutin Nikolay Georgievich, chairman of Russian Federal Service for Environmental, Technological and Nuclear Supervision...
    Monday, 21st June, 2010