General News

  • - Japan’s Personal Closet M&V has held a charity party in Tokyo to raise funds for Doctor Tadashi Hattori’s charitable activities in Vietnam. The doctor has provided free eye treatment to patients in Vietnam for the last 10 years. Vietnamese...
    Monday, 10th December, 2012
  • The first website on HIV/AIDS prevention in Vietnam has been launched under the support by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and University of Washington. The website...
    Monday, 10th December, 2012
  • Japan promised to continue supporting Vietnam’s economic development through its official development assistance (ODA), affirmed Japanese Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Kazuya Shimba.Mr. Shimba made the statement at a meeting with Vietnam’s...
    Monday, 10th December, 2012
  • The State Bank of Vietnam and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) this month expect to sign a loan agreement to set up a fund for public-private partnership (PPP) projects to improve Vietnam’s troubled infrastructure.With the starting financial source...
    Monday, 10th December, 2012
  • The Vietnamese government has approved a project to develop the public-private-partnership (PPP) model in Vietnam funded by the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID). The $7.1 million grant will help the Ministry of Transport...
    Monday, 10th December, 2012
  • The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will lend $300 million to Vietnam to help the country reform state-owed enterprises (SOEs), Deputy Head of the Financial Corporation Department under the Ministry of Finance, Dang Quyet Tien said.The 25-year term...
    Monday, 10th December, 2012
  • Vietnam signed 39 agreements for loans and aids with total committed capital of $3.9 billion in the first eleven months of this year, the Ministry of Finance (MoF) said.The total value of the loans and aids was $3.1 million in November, the ministry...
    Monday, 10th December, 2012
  • The U.K. government has granted $10 million through Department for International Development (DFID) to the Vietnam Business Challenge Fund (VBCF), which debuted in Hanoi on Nov 28.The fund aims to support private businesses with community-based...
    Monday, 3rd December, 2012
  • The Nordic Assistance to Vietnam (NAV) has helped the central province of Thua Thien-Hue implement a project on climate change adaptation and mitigation in the 2011-2012 period.Targeting Phong Binh, a low-lying commune in Phong Dien district, the $2...
    Monday, 3rd December, 2012
  • The project “Support to the implementation of the Resolution 80/NQ-CP on directions of  sustainable poverty reduction (2011-2020) and the National Targeted Program on Sustainable Poverty Reduction (NTP-SPR) 2012-2016", Ministry of Labour-...
    Monday, 3rd December, 2012