General News

  • The Spanish government will provide a financial assistance to Ho Chi Minh City to carry out a project to deal with pollution in the Saigon River. The project will focus on assessing the pollution level and discussing measures to prevent wastewater...
    Monday, 7th December, 2009
  • China has given aid of $4.5 million to the construction of student dormitory for the Ho Chi Minh National Political Academy of Vietnam.  The 15-storey building was put into operation Monday, the Xinhua News Agency said Nov 30. The political...
    Monday, 7th December, 2009
  • The Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training has signed a memorandum of understanding with the University of Cambridge to set up European standards for English learning and teaching in the country. The university will also support the MoET by...
    Monday, 7th December, 2009
  • The school drop-out rate in the Mekong Delta has declined significantly this year, according to reports at a meeting held in Ca Mau province on Nov. 29. Ca Mau province has the lowest drop-out ratio with 0.04%, followed by Vinh Long province with 0....
    Monday, 7th December, 2009
  • The Mekong Delta provinces of Hau Giang and Ben Tre plan to build nearly 1,000 toilets over the next two years as part of the national program to provide proper sanitary facilities to rural schools. The total investment for these projects, at VND100...
    Monday, 7th December, 2009
  • Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and provincial governments to take measures to stabilize the domestic rice market.Mr Dung also required the Vietnam Food...
    Monday, 7th December, 2009
  • The government of Spain has financed VND2.328 trillion ($125.9 million) to 22 projects to develop rural infrastructure and production in Vietnam’s northern province of Quang Ninh, the Thoi bao Kinh te newspaper reported Thursday. Ten of these...
    Monday, 30th November, 2009
  • The People’s Committee of the central Quang Tri province has approved scholarship of VND2.3 billion ($125,000) for students from the Van Kieu and Pa Co ethnic minorities in this school year. The scholarship would be given to students in four...
    Monday, 30th November, 2009
  • The International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) of Sweden has assisted VND11 billion ($615,315) to Vietnam’s central province of Quang Nam to build a 75-kW power plant to bring electricity to Cotu ethnic minority people in the locality. The...
    Monday, 30th November, 2009
  • The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has hailed Vietnam’s poverty reduction program named 135 as it has benefited many poor people in difficult communes of mountainous areas. The second phase of the program 135 slated from 2006 to 2010 has...
    Monday, 30th November, 2009