Vietnam will increase spending for environment protection activities to VND6 trillion ($324.69 million) in 2010, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Pham Khoi Nguyen told state media. Nguyen said that the ministry will send teams of...
Apollo Education and Training Center has granted 450 scholarships worth $61,240 to excellent Vietnamese students, the Ministry of Industry and Trade said on its website on Feb. 8. The granting ceremonies were held in Ho Chi Minh City on Feb. 4, in...
Germany will help improve Vietnam’s education and training, German senior officials affirmed at a meeting in Berlin Feb 8. Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Quoc Cuong and German Secretary of State Wolf-Ruthart Born co-...
The Dutch government will fund EUR18 million for Vietnam to improve the national post-graduate and tertiary education quality in the next four years, the Vietnam News Agency said Feb. 10. The agreement to this effect was signed between Dutch...
The Vietnamese prime minister has requested the Ministry of Finance (MoF) to allocate 3,619 tons of rice from the national reserves to assist poor people during the Lunar New Year festival. Of the volume, the MoF will allocate 2,000 tons to Kon Tum...
Hoang Ngoc Duong deputy chairman of the People’s Committee of the northern province of Bac Kan said Jan. 28 that all poor families in Ba Be and Pac Nam districts have new houses to welcome the lunar New Year festival. Inadequate houses of 748...
Four unexploded bombs have been found in the Lo river this month after the river’s water levels receded in Doan Hung district, Phu Tho province. Local authorities were deployed to remove the bombs. The bombs might have been dropped to destroy Doan...
The Red Cross in Central Highland Dak Lak province in 2009 raised over VND2 billion, including VND650 million from the Vietnam Red Cross Society, to aid AO/dioxin victims. The provincial Red Cross coordinated with the Traditional Medicine Hospital...
The northern province of Lao Cai has completed building 4,260 houses for poor families in 2009 during the implementation of Decision 167/ 2008/QD-TTg of the Prime Minister on supporting housing for the poor. The province and the Vietnam Development...
Ho Chi Minh City targets to reduce the rate of poor families to 7.2% this year, down from 7.25% in 2009, the city’s Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs said at a conference early this week. In 2010, the department expects to raise...
