General News

  • South Korea’s Ministry of Environment and Vietnam’s southern province of Tien Giang authorities have recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to support an environmental sanitation project in My Tho City. The project, which costs $133.25...
    Tuesday, 3rd November, 2009
  • The government of Germany will fund EUR18 million ($26.5 million) for environmental projects in Vietnam, the German Embassy in Hanoi said. German Ambassador to Vietnam, Rolf Schulze, notified the aid to Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Planning and...
    Tuesday, 3rd November, 2009
  • Vietnam’s central city of Danang and Japan’s Kitakyushu University will work on a project to clean dioxin-contaminated land at Danang Airport, the Quan Doi Nhan Dan newspaper reported Thursday.Under the project, a dioxin-contaminated land...
    Tuesday, 3rd November, 2009
  • Viglacera Corp. started building a VND23 billion ($1.3 million) wastewater treatment station at Yen Phong industrial park (IP) in the northern province of Bac Ninh yesterday, October 28. This is the second wastewater treatment station at the IPs of...
    Tuesday, 3rd November, 2009
  • Officials from the Vietnamese government and the Japan International Cooperation Agency met with ten polluters in the northern provinces of Thai Nguyen and Bac Kan Oct. 29 to discuss a plan to manage the water environment of the Cau river basin....
    Tuesday, 3rd November, 2009
  • Binh Duong Environment - Water Drainage and Supply Co. has operated a VND28 billion ($1.6 million) wastewater treatment plant, the most modern of its kind in southern Vietnam, state media reported Thursday. This is part of the Finland-funded EUR6.6...
    Tuesday, 3rd November, 2009
  • Seventeen Vietnamese secondary students have won ASEAN scholarships to study four years in selected schools in Singapore.Of the 17 recipients, 14 came from Hanoi and three from Ho Chi Minh City, the Vietnam News Agency said, giving no details about...
    Tuesday, 3rd November, 2009
  • The Eighth French Book Exhibition opened in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi on Oct 27 as part of activities to mark 100th anniversary of French Literature. The event which will end on Nov 2 features more than 7,000 new books on language, literature...
    Tuesday, 3rd November, 2009
  • Vietnamese students who want to go to South Korea to study will have to hold Korean language certificate TOPIK from 2010, state media reported, citing a South Korea institute. The announcement was made by South Korea National Institute for...
    Tuesday, 3rd November, 2009
  • The European Union (EU) and the International Labor Organization (ILO) have cooperated with Vietnam Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) to open a vocational training course to standardize local teachers. During the two-month...
    Tuesday, 3rd November, 2009