Vietnam has held a series of activities to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the death of Nguyen Van Troi, who tried to kill former U.S. Defense Minister Robert McNamara by mine in 1964, state media reported. The activities were conducted on Oct 15...
Two scrap metal collectors died and another was left seriously injured when a war-era bomb in Vietnam's Central Highlands exploded, police said on Oct 16. The accident happened last week when the men, aged between 31 and 35, found the 1-metre bomb...
A total of VND52.433 billion ($2.5 million) was raised to support needy households in Hanoi at the launch of the campaign “Days for the Poor” Month on October 15. The campaign, which lasts until November 18, is to call for more people to join hands...
The poverty rate as of the end of 2013 dipped to 7.6% thanks to Party and State policies for boosting socio-economic development along with the contribution of the whole society. Deputy Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs Nguyen Trong Dam...
The implementation of ethnic minority and new-style rural building policies in the Southwestern Region has started to show positive results, representatives from the Regional Steering Committee and the National Assembly’s Ethnic Council concluded in...
Tac Xinh dance of the San Chay ethnic minority people in Phu Luong district, the northern province Thai Nguyen was declared a national intangible cultural heritage on October 16. Tac Xinh dance is a form of performing that has been preserved and...
The European Commission (EC) has signed an agreement to provide Vietnam with EUR400 million in development aid from now to 2020 during the recent talks between EC President Manuel Barroso and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in Brussels....
The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has assigned Vietnam Technological and Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Techcombank) to serve a sustainable urban transport project for Metro Route No. 2 in Ho Chi Minh City funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB)....
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has pledged to help Vietnam develop the public- private partnership (PPP) model to attract private investment for the country’s infrastructure projects, said Executive Director Maliami Bin Hamad. Leaders of the ADB...
Vietnam has launched a project on ecological industrial parks costing $53 million with funding from the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Global Environment Fund and the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO)....
