General News

  • The Belgian government has funded EUR25 million to help carry out a project on water management and urban development amid climate change in three central provinces of Vietnam. The project, which will be carried out in six years, aims to raise...
    Monday, 5th August, 2013
  • Vietnam’s Thai Binh Trading Corporation has pledged an aid package worth $150,000 to help Cuban people to surmount the consequences caused by Hurricane Sandy. A ceremony to present the gift in a symbolic manner was organized in Havana July 30. The...
    Monday, 5th August, 2013
  • Vietnam has lost about VND517 billion ($24.38 million) from natural disasters in July, versus nearly VND63.2 billion in July 2012, said the government’s General Statistics Office (GSO). Among disasters-hit localities, the northern city of Haiphong...
    Monday, 5th August, 2013
  • Vietnam should enhance international cooperation in making policies and strategies related to natural resource management and environmental protection amid rising degradation, said Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha....
    Monday, 5th August, 2013
  • Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) disbursed an estimated amount of VND339 billion ($16 million) worth of state funds for its projects in the first seven months of 2013, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO). The figure...
    Monday, 5th August, 2013
  • More than 10,000 people will join a fundraising walk next week to commemorate the Day for Victims of Agent Orange which falls on August 10. The annual event will be held on August 3 in Dam Sen Cultural Park in HCM City's District 11. It is organised...
    Monday, 29th July, 2013
  • Leaders of Central Highlands localities require issues like farmland, jobs and the lives of ethnic minority groups to be settled promptly and effectively in the coming time. They made the request at a meeting convened by the Steering Committee for...
    Monday, 29th July, 2013
  • The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and 140 representatives of Vietnamese non-governmental organizations (NGOs) gathered at a meeting in Hanoi July 24 to enhance cooperation via a new grant program. The USAID’s Development Grants...
    Monday, 29th July, 2013
  • The World Bank (WB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) have pledged to continue their assistance for Vietnam’s development projects in the years to come, said top executives of the two organizations. WB Group President Jim Yong Kim and IMF...
    Monday, 29th July, 2013
  • Vietnamese authorities have uncovered more and more food and foodstuff samples tainted with banned substances, which are posing great threats to people’s health, warned experts. The environmental police detected 500 cases of smuggled chicken and...
    Monday, 29th July, 2013