The World Bank (WB) will continue providing loans, technical support and input analysis for Vietnam to assist the country in controlling and dealing with urban flooding, an increasingly serious development challenge for the country. The WB’s...
Vietnam has set a target to improve the environment in 100 polluted areas until 2015 as part of a national target program on managing and improving environmental pollution during the 2011-2015 period. The program will be carried out in 11 provinces...
The Vietnam Red Cross Association handed over $30,000 as relief aid to Washi storm victims in the Philippines on Feb 16. The move was made after the United Nation called on the international community, including ASEAN nations, to support the...
Vietnam and Japanese environment officials gathered at meeting in the capital city of Hanoi Feb 16 to discuss ways to clean up chemical contamination and challenges in the environment. The Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (...
Environment authorities in Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City and Osaka Water and Environment Solutions Association (OWESA) of Japan jointly held a conference on boosting solid waste management cooperation on Feb 16. This is the...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has planned to remove university entrance exams from 2020, state media reported. From now to 2015, the ministry would maintain the exams under the enrollment regulation named “three commons”....
The Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has fined 20 colleges and universities nationwide for violating enrolment regulations last year, state media reported on Feb 17. Fourteen of the institutions exceeded the number of permitted...
Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has approved the technical assistance project to implement the State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) Reform and Corporate Governance Facilitation Program. The project will require a total of $1.45 million, of which $1....
Australia-based Trisun International Development (TID) is seeking to build a $400-million plant to generate electricity from waste in Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City. The information was released at a conference on treating waste...
The government of South Korea will provide an official development aid worth $100 million for Vietnam to build a data center at Hoa Lac Hi-tech Park, aiming to help improve the latter’s IT infrastructure in the future. Vietnam’s Ministry of...
