The Vietnamese Ministry of Health has forecast that the country is still at risk of latent cholera infection if prevention measures are not strongly taken, the Voice of Vietnam said June 11. Cholera bacterium tests have shown results of poisonous...
Authorities of Mekong Delta region have been cautioned about increasing number of people contracting dengue fever two months prior to the virus' peak season, health experts were quoted by the Vietnam News Agency as saying June 12. Statistics from An...
Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank of France will finance $50 million for the 750-MW Nhon Trach 2 power project Vietnam’s southern province of Dong Nai via Ocean Commercial Joint Stock Bank (OceanBank). A short-term credit agreement to...
Authority in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Binh has recently started a project worth VND48 billion ($2.53 million) to upgrade local power grids using ODA of the Japanese government. The project will help upgrade power grids in seven communes...
Foreign investors, including Siemens AG of Germany, Enfinity Group of Belgium, and JPMorgan Chase of the U.S. are seeking a suitable position to build a 900-MW wind and solar power plant in Vietnam’s central province of Khanh Hoa. The foreign firms...
Vietnam should work out a better and more persuasive plan on building a $55.8 billion express railway which is estimated to cost $55.8 billion to attract official development assistance (ODA), said Japanese Ambassador Mitsuo Sakaba. “With much...
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) has worked with Tan Tao Group (ITA) on its possible lending of $2 billion for the latter’s 1,200-MW Kien Luong 1 coal-fired power plant in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang. The plant, along...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will lend the two Vietnamese largest cities of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City $2 billion to develop their public transport projects in the next five years, the Thanh Nien newspaper reported June 11, citing an the bank...
The European Union (EU) pledged to provide EUR940 million ($1.1 billion) in official development assistance (ODA) for Vietnam this year, accounting for 17.5% of its total oversea aids, said an EU official. The sum including $304 million in non-...
The Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR) and the Association of Cities of Vietnam will join hands to implement a community housing project for 102 poor people in the central province of Nghe An. The project will benefit the needy people in Vinh...
