Vietnam’s government will invest VND7 trillion ($311 million) in upgrading and build irrigation projects in the Mekong Delta by 2020 to help the region better deal with droughts and salinization, said Nguyen Van Tinh, deputy head of the Directorate...
The HCM City People’s Committee has just granted an investment license to a project to tackle local floods, worth VND10 trillion ($450 million). The project will be implemented by the Trung Nam Construction Investment JSC under the Build and...
The Ministry of Education and Training held a ceremony in Hanoi on April 20 to officially hand over Hanoi Science-Technology University (HSTU) to the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), state media report. The event was held in...
Almost 200 nursing students of Vietnam’s University of East Asia will participate in the apprenticeship program in Japan after the agreement was officially signed on April 20, state media reported. Accordingly, the Institute Of Education Nanakamado...
The U.S. is gradually increasing its funding to victims of Agent Orange (AO) which is left since the Vietnam War, and both American and Vietnamese governments now willingly speak about AO, according to an aide from the U.S. government. “We are not...
A group of doctors from “Facing the World,” a United Kingdom-based charity, will provide free surgery to some 70-80 Vietnamese children with facial disfigurements from April 6-16 in Viet Duc and Hong Ngoc hospitals in Hanoi, state media reported....
Lots of unexploded ordnance (UXO) have been found in localities across the northern province of Thai Nguyen, announced the provincial Military Command on April 13. On April 12, Nguyen Van Giai from Nga My commune, Phu Binh district unearthed an...
Two Australia-funded vocational training projects underway in northern Ha Giang province’s Quang Ngan and Lung Phin villages have helped Dao ethnic minority women escape poverty. (http://english.vov.vn/society/australia-offers-vocation-training-to-...
Vietnam’s central coastal province of Khanh Hoa will use loans of $10 million from the World Bank to upgrade eight local water reservoirs in the next five years, said Le Xuan Than, vice chairman of the province’s executive body People’s Committee....
The World Bank (WB), Vietnam’s biggest multilateral donor, had provided $3.7 billion in official development assistance (ODA) over past four years, said Sandeep Mahajan, Chief Economist of the WB office in Vietnam. Vietnam will be soon no longer to...
