The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in Vietnam (WWF Vietnam) have joined hands to launch a campaign to raise awareness of its staff of climate change in Vietnam. The campaign, entitled Climate Camp...
The state-owned Vietnam National Coal-Mineral Industries Group (Vinacomin) has recently funded VND15 billion ($81,732) for a project to build a high school in the central highlands province of Dak Nong. The Quang Son high school, costing a total of...
Overseas Vietnamese or Viet Kieu on Jan 27 donated over $53,000 to build kindergartens in Vietnam’s northern provinces of Bac Can, Son La and Cao Bang. The sum was raised by Viet Kieu through the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese to help...
The Vietnamese capital of Hanoi targets to cut the rate of poor households to 5.4% this year down from 6.09% in 2009, local authorities said at a meeting on Jan. 21. The city also expects to give soft loans to 60,000 families, provide vocational...
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved to set up a delegation of state agencies, led by the State Bank of Vietnam, to make negotiations on borrowing $150 million from the World Bank to fund a poverty reduction project. The central bank said in...
Vietnam reduced the poverty rate among ethnic minority groups to 26.7% in 2009 as a result of effective projects known as Decision 134 and Program 135. At a conference in Hanoi Jan. 20, the Committee for Ethnic Affairs reported that under Decision...
The Spanish Agency for International Cooperation is cooperating with the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) and local authorities to make a plan for Hue’s sustainable tourism development by 2020. Launched in August 2008, the plan’s...
The Japanese government has agreed to finance Vietnam to work out a feasible study for its key railway project, the Giao Thong Van Tai newspaper reported Jan. 21, citing Japanese official. Japan will give the funding to two sections of the Hanoi-Ho...
Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi and the Japan Trust Fund have signed a deal to grant $1.1 million to preserve Thang Long ancient citadel in a bid to prepare for nomination to the UNESCO’s Cultural Heritage, the government said on its website Jan. 21...
Luxembourg will fund EUR2.95 million to a EUR3.3 million project to improve quality of tourism human resources in Vietnam in the next three years. Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Tran Chien Thang, and Luxembourg Ambassador to Vietnam...