The Global Environment Fund has granted $4.5 million to a four-year project to help Vietnam cleanse pesticides, belonging to persistent organic pollutants (POPs), in the environment, state media reported April 6. The Vietnam Environment...
The Vietnamese capital of Hanoi will spend more than VND8.7 trillion ($455.5 million) on a project to cleanse Nhue river and strengthen the land use management in the river basin from now up to 2015. The money will be sourced from the state budget,...
Dozens of foreign advisers yesterday attended a seminar in the northern province of Vinh Phuc to consult natural disasters mitigation efforts with Vietnam, state media reported. The event held by the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural...
Vietnam needs the World Bank’s assistance to its three programs on sea and river dykes and anti-flooding, said Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung. Deputy PM Hung made the statement while receiving WB General Director Juan Jose Daboub in Nha...
Forty German universities will team up to build the Vietnam-Germany University worth $180 million in Vietnam’s southern province of Binh Duong, the Vietnamese government said on its website April 3. Covering an area of 50 hectares, this will be the...
Vietnam’s education and training sector received VND26 trillion ($1.36 billion) in official development assistance (ODA) between 1998 and 2009, said the Ministry of Education and Training. Of that sum, more than 40% was invested in the local...
One hundred universities and educational centers from 12 countries and territories worldwide are attending a three-day exhibition on education and occupation in Ho Chi Minh City from April 8-10. During the event, educational and scholarship programs...
The Indonesian Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City Saturday granted 120 wheelchairs to AO/dioxin victims in Vietnam’s southern city of Can Tho, the Vietnam News Agency said Mar. 29. The wheelchairs, to be donated through the Vietnam Association of...
Provinces and cities across Vietnam reported a total of 236,000 families with 934,000 people suffering from hunger in the first quarter of this year, 34,000 families higher than 2009, the General Statistics Office (GSO) said. Those suffering from...
Vietnam will achieve its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on a national scale, according to a seminar in Hanoi on April 2 on ideas for the country’s draft report on MDG implementation in 2010. Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Cao Viet...
