Vietnam expects to boost the bilateral educational cooperation with U.S. universities in the future, including George Mason University, said President Nguyen Minh Triet at the meeting with the university’s Provost Peter N. Stearns in Hanoi on Nov 24...
Vietnam reported more than 8,000 students who violated the criminal law in the 2005-2008 period, which rings an alarming bell with the whole society, state media reported Thursday. Of the figure, 2,000 was charged on causing the social orders; 815...
Thuy Linh Joint Stock Company began to build an international preschool worth over $2 million in Ha Long City, Vietnam’s northern province of Quang Ninh on Nov 26. This will be the first preschool of this kind in the locality, the Lao Dong newspaper...
Vietnam has spent VND859.7 billion ($46.5 million) to improve training quality at universities from now through 2015, state media reported Nov 27. The capital is mainly used to help universities to apply and develop advanced training programs, the...
A delegation of transportation and education officials from Canada will visit Vietnam from November 29 to December 3, 2009 to boost bilateral education and trade ties.“This visit will facilitate business and educational linkages and opportunities...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has decided to invest VND31 billion (around $1.73 million) in eight new satellite database centers that preserve information on intangible cultural heritages of ethnic groups in the country. The...
JTI Vietnam, an unit of Japan Tobacco International (JTI), will finance the construction of 20 houses for poor families in Hau Giang and Ninh Thuan provinces by end-2009. JTI Vietnam, the Vietnam National Tobacco Corp. and the Vietnam Red Cross will...
The U.S.-based Chevron Company will grant $300,000 to the Save the Children Foundation to implement a project to support 500 poor women in Can Tho City and Ca Mau province to develop small businesses. Chevron and Save the Children officials signed...
Vietnam and Japan signed Tuesday seven aid agreements totaling JPY119.791 billion (about $1.3 billion), the biggest pledged sum so far, in line with the Japanese fiscal year to end on March 31, 2010. Deputy Minister of Finance Tran Xuan Ha and...
The World Bank will finance $1.5 billion for a project to upgrade 130.5 kilometers of a National Highway section linking from Danang to Quang Ngai provinces in the first phase. The road will be expanding into a four-lane highway with width of 25.5...
