General News

  • By the end of July, Vietnam disbursed nearly VND3.1 trillion ($129.17 million) in the National Program in Poverty Reduction this year, or 37.3% of the full-year target, local media reported. Such disbursement rate was the lowest among the three...
    Monday, 28th August, 2023
  • Tourism is viewed as a driving force to boost socioeconomic development in ethnic minority areas, but identifying how best to promote tourism and culture in these areas is no simple task. This is a community-based study tour in the mountainous...
    Monday, 28th August, 2023
  • Vietnam received over $677 million in aid from foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) during the 2020 – 2022 period, heard a conference co-hosted by the Party Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations and the Vietnam Union of...
    Monday, 28th August, 2023
  • Innovation Partnership Grants, a funding scheme under the Australian government’s Aus4Innovation program, will offer AUD2 million ($1.28 million) to sponsor tech-based innovation in Vietnam’s agriculture sector, state media reported. In the fourth...
    Monday, 28th August, 2023
  • The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) will fund Vietnam’s central province of Thua Thien-Hue $13 million to develop the Hue smart culture and tourism city project, local media said. The provincial People’s Committee held a meeting on...
    Monday, 28th August, 2023
  • Vietnamese representatives shared the country's policies on promoting traditional medicine at the first Traditional Medicine Global Summit in India on August 17-18, local media reported. The summit, organized by the World Health Organization (WHO)...
    Monday, 28th August, 2023
  • Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Vo Tuan Nhan participated in the 13th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on the Environment in Laos’ Vientiane on August 23, state media reported. Speaking at the event, Mr. Nhan fanned concern...
    Monday, 28th August, 2023
  • The British Embassy in Hanoi has announced the initiation of the second phase of the climate finance accelerator (CFA) program to support low-carbon projects in Vietnam, state media reported. The embassy is looking for pre-feasibility projects that...
    Monday, 28th August, 2023
  • The “Supporting the Vietnamese government in digital transformation of labor through vocational education and training” project, which was launched in 2021 by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), has supported nearly 3,000 students...
    Monday, 28th August, 2023
  • On August 15, Vietnam’s Mine Recovery Support Association worked with the People’s Committee of A Luoi district in central Thua Thien-Hue province to organize a program to raise awareness of mine accident prevention. At the event, the association...
    Monday, 21st August, 2023