Denmark’s non-governmental organization DDG is providing a non-refundable aid of nearly $1.29 million for phase II of a project on searching for and settling unexploded ordnance (UXO) in central Quang Tri province. This project, recently been...
Party Committee, People’s Committee and the Fatherland Front Committee in Phu Nhuan District yesterday organized walking program named “Dong hanh vi nguoi ngheo” (Accompanying with the poor) for fundraising. The event took place in Rach Mieu...
The Central Highlands province of Gia Lai has carried out a project on enhancing nutrition for mothers and children in a bid to improve the population quality, particularly among ethnic minority groups. The project focused on education for mothers...
Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh praised localities, ministries, and agencies on their efforts to help change ethnic minority-areas nationwide. A report at a meeting discussing government Decree No 05/2011/ND-CP on ethnic minority work,...
Ta Oi people in a remote district in the central Vietnamese province of Thua Thien-Hue now moonlight as tourism employees, offering tourists the opportunity to experience life as a member of an ethnic minority in Vietnam. Since the establishment of...
Vietnam’s Thuan Binh Wind Power JSC last weekend started commercial run of a wind power plant costing VND1.1 trillion ($49.2 million) from Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW), a German government-owned development bank, in the central province of...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a project on sustainable green growth for the country that will receive nearly EUR4 million worth of non-refundable aid from the government of Germany. The project will comprise three components...
The Hanoi Metrolitan Management Board (MRB) has affirmed that the cost of the Nhon-Hanoi Station urban railway, funded by Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the AgenceFrançaise de Développement (AFD), doubled to EUR1.17 billion. Construction of the...
Officials from the World Bank said at a conference held in Vietnam’s southern city of Can Tho that the bank will finance $310 million worth of soft loans to Vietnam to help the country conduct a $384-million climate change resilience project in the...
Vietnam ranks fifth in Asia-Pacific in HIV infections, recording 10,000 new cases of HIV every year, figures announced by the Ministry of Heath at a ceremony in Danang last week. The event aims to respond to the national action month for HIV/AIDS...
