Thai Siam Cement Group (SCG) on July 11 in coordination with Tuoi Tre Newspaper and the Hanoi Youth Union presented scholarships to 50 poor high-school students excelling in their studies. Earlier on July 4, SCG and Tuoi Tre newspaper granted 350...
Japan’s Fujitsu-JAIMS Foundation is offering scholarships to Vietnamese students to attend a management program entitled “Global Leaders for Innovation and Knowledge”. The four-month training course features a multi-campus network in Japan, the U.S...
Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan, Chairwoman of the Vietnam Children Support Fund Council, on July 12 presented scholarships within the program “Together with children to school” to needy students in Thua Thien-Hue province. The scholarships, aimed to...
Vietnam will cooperate with the U.S. to promote the search for remains of American servicemen who died during the Vietnam War, Nguyen Chi Vinh, Vietnamese deputy defense minister, said at a meeting with a U.S.’s deputy assistant secretary in Hanoi...
The private sector should be encouraged to work with the rural and ethnic poor, country director of the Swiss Agency for Development and Co-operation in Viet Nam, Samuel Waelty, said yesterday. Speaking at a workshop, Waelty said this could be a...
The implementation of ethnic work in the central and Central Highlands regions was reviewed at a conference held in the Central Highlands city of Buon Ma Thuot on July 1. The ethnic work is always considered as a vital part of the national socio-...
The Central Highlands provinces are working to provide farming land for poor people from ethnic minorities as a main source of their livelihood to secure stable incomes. According to the Steering Committee for the Central Highlands, there are 31,800...
The Vietnam Electricity (EVN), the country’s sole power distributor, will start upgrading a hydropower project in Vietnam’s southern province of Binh Phuoc, which received $57.7 million in funding from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (...
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors on June 30 approved a combined $270 million loan for Vietnam to support power sector reforms and climate change response. The credit package includes $200 million for power sector and the remaining for...
The World Bank (WB) has pledged at an annual conference on the Vietnam Urban Forum (VUF) in Hanoi on June 27 to finance $2 billion to help Vietnam carry out urban development project. The money will help 30 cities and provinces to develop urban...
