Vietnam and Laos will increase the quality and efficiency of bilateral cooperation in education and human resource development in the 2011-2020 period. This is part of a cooperation agreement signed in Vientiane on February 9 between Vietnamese...
The World Bank (WB) in collaboration with authorities in Vietnam’s southern city of Can Tho held a conference on Feb 8 to outline measures to deal with the negative impacts of climate change in the coming years. Local authorities should combine...
Vietnam is likely to dump 44 million tons of solid waste per year by 2015, greatly threatening environment and community health, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) said. The figure was released by MoNRE in a report on...
Vietnam is listed in the top ten nations with the worst air pollution level in the world, an annual environment report by U.S. universities released at the World Economic Forum 2012 in Davos, Switzerland showed. The study entitled the 2012...
The People’s Committee of the southern province of Vinh Long announced that the province would spend VND 42.5 billion building safe water infrastructure in rural communes. Accordingly, 18 safe water projects will be built, upgraded and expanded in...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Health’s Health Examination and Treatment Department has proposed to invite foreign health experts to define the cause of strange skin disease in the central province of Quang Ngai. The province has recorded 106 people...
The Vietnamese National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology will make A/H5N1 flu vaccine for humans in 2013, Nguyen Tran Hien, head of the institute, confirmed. The institute is conducting the third stage of the vaccine testing in humans, which is...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Transport has proposed to the government to provide additional $205 million for transport infrastructure development project using loans from the World Bank and non-refundable loans from the Australian government. With the...
The World Bank (WB) plans to fund $290 million for Vietnam’s southern metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City to conduct Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project in an effort to ease overloaded traffic, state media reported on Feb 7. Representatives of the WB and the...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed an agreement to provide Vietnam with $120.5 million to assist the country in improving its power transmission network, the Dau Tu newspaper reported on Feb 10. The agreement was clinched between the...
