General News

  • Vietnam’s Vinacontrol Joint Stock Co. and two German companies SHP Steriltechnik AG and FCS FCS Qualitatssicherungsystem GmbH have signed a deal to set up a joint venture European Fine Food Testing Co., the financial cafef.vn newspaper reported Mar...
    Monday, 15th March, 2010
  • Vietnam’s central province of Quang Ngai authorities have approved Hoang Long Real Estate Tourism Investment Joint Stock Co. to build a VND280 billion ($14.66 million) solid waste treatment plant. Covering on a site of 10 hectares in Nghia Hanh...
    Monday, 15th March, 2010
  • International organizations and several countries have pledged to fund $790 million for Vietnam to cope with climate change, said Tran Thi Minh Ha from the office for the national program to respond to climate change. The commitment was made at a...
    Monday, 15th March, 2010
  • German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) have joined hands to help Vietnam cope with climate change, the government said on its website March 8. BMZ Minister Dirk...
    Monday, 15th March, 2010
  • Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Thien Nhan called on the U.K. government to continue supporting the Southeast Asian country to cope with climate change.Nhan made the call at a meeting with British...
    Monday, 15th March, 2010
  • The World Bank has agreed to add $90 million to the Nhieu Loc - Thi Nghe basin environmental sanitation project in Ho Chi Minh City to complete it next year. The World Bank and the project’s management board are expected to sign a deal to extend the...
    Monday, 15th March, 2010
  • Italian universities are willing to cooperate with Vietnamese partners in student exchanges and undergraduate and postgraduate training, said officials from the schools at a recent meeting with Vietnam Ambassador to France Dang Khanh Thoai....
    Monday, 15th March, 2010
  • Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a plan to allocate VND4.5 trillion ($243 million) from g-bonds this year to continue a project to upgrade schools and communal houses for teachers in the 2008-2012 period. The announcement was...
    Monday, 15th March, 2010
  • Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan and Peter Mandelson, U.K. Secretary of State for Business has signed a joint declaration on establishment of Vietnam-U.K. International Public University in the central city of Danang. During Nhan’s...
    Monday, 15th March, 2010
  • The U.S.-based Boeing Corporation will provide $10,000 scholarships to ten students enrolled in an information technology training course in 2010 at Duy Tan University in Vietnam’s central city of Danang, the Vietnam News Agency said Mar 10....
    Monday, 15th March, 2010