Vietnam will release a map of bomb and mine pollution this year to speed up the progress and raise efficiency of bomb and mine removal, said a representative of the Vietnam Bomb and Mine Action Center under the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social...
Vietnam will need around VND14 trillion ($700 million) for bomb and mine clearance by 2025, said Deputy Minister of Lab our, Invalids and Social Affairs Bui Hong Linh. An estimated 800,000 tons of unexploded ordinance is has been left in the country...
The labor federation of central Quang Nam province on March 28 presented over VND1.5 billion to 12 fishermen in special difficulty. The beneficiaries, residing in the three districts of Duy Xuyen, Thang Binh and Nui Thanh, have been seriously...
Nearly 2,500 poor people with vision problems in two central provinces of Quang Ngai and Binh Dinh have benefited from free medical check-ups and surgeries funded by the Ho Chi Minh City branch of Hope Charity during a campaign in March. The...
Vietnam has reported 178,800 hungry families with 737,300 starving people in the first three months of this year, down 10.8% and 10.9% on year, respectively, said the government’s General Statistics Office (GSO). Most of them are living in the...
The World Bank (WB) approved an additional grant of $6.5 million to the Coastal Resources for Sustainable Development Project (CRSD) in Vietnam on March 29. The credit comes from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) – a Trust Fund managed by the WB...
Turbine 2 of a 180-MW hydropower plant in Vietnam’s central province of Nghe An has been connected to the national grid, generating about 717 million kWh of electricity per year. Costing VND6 trillion ($287 million), the plant was built by...
- As many as 153 poor children in the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang have received free medical check-ups provided by the U.S.-based Social Assistance Program for Vietnam (SAP-VN). The check-ups, conducted with the support of the Thai...
Most of the World Bank (WB)-funded infrastructure transport projects are running behind schedule in Vietnam mainly due to capital shortage or sluggish site clearance, the Ministry of Transport said. A project to develop waterway transport (WB6) in...
The Japanese government has signed a note on providing JPY202.926 million ($2 billion) in official development assistance (ODA) in its 2012 fiscal year for development projects in Vietnam. A project to improve weak bridges on the National Highway 1...
