A joint venture between Austria's SFC Environmental Technologies Pvt Ltd and two Vietnamese firms will build a VND1.352 trillion ($70.78 million) wastewater treatment plant in Ho Chi Minh City in April. The Austrian firm, Phu Dien Construction and...
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is working on a project to help Vietnam prevent wildlife smuggling in the central highlands province of Lam Dong and the southern province of Dong Nai. Launched in 2008, the project which slated for...
Vietnam Bank for Social Policies will raise VND10 trillion ($526 million) to lend students in 2010 and 2011, the Vietnam News Agency said Feb 22.Of the total figure, the lender will raise between VND4 trillion and 5 trillion worth of government-...
Vietnam will need VND30 trillion ($1.57 billion) to develop housing projects in the next five years to meet increasing demands of students, said the Construction Ministry’s Housing and Real Estate Market Management Department. The country would have...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved spending VND14.6 trillion ($764.4 million) to improve the quality of pre-school education in the 2010-2015 period. The money is used to build national standard preschools in underprivileged...
The military headquarters of the central province of Quang Ngai on February defused an American bomb of nearly 350kg in a local village. This bomb was discovered Jan. 30 in Kim Giao village, Pho Thuan commune, Duc Pho district, Quang Ngai province...
Various charitable activities have been launched to help poor people and social policy beneficiaries enjoy a happy New Year (Tet). Thanh Hoa province Feb. 7 donated more than VND100 million to 43 families of Agent Orange/Dioxin victims in 17...
Vietnam has granted about VND400 billion ($21.6 million) to poor people on the occasion of the Lunar New Year. The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) estimates that as many as 700,000 poor families totaling 2.9 million people...
Vietnam will need VND3 trillion ($162.35 million) to build houses for 180,000 poor families this year, said the Ministry of Construction.Of the total, VND1.5 trillion is expected to come from the sate budget and the rest in soft loans from the...
The Government Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs (CEMA) is finalizing projects and implementing incentive policies to improve the living conditions of the ethnic minorities.2010 is the last year for the Committee to complete its key projects...
