General News

  • Vietnam is estimated to have attracted $322.71 million worth of foreign direct investment (FDI) in two projects on clean water supply and waste treatment between Jan and Aug. The figure accounts for 3.37% of the country’s total FDI of $9.57 billion...
    Thursday, 8th September, 2011
  • Vietnam is estimated to have recorded 75 food poisoning cases in the first eight months of this year, affecting 3,900 people, including nine deaths, the government’s General Statistics Office (GSO) said.In July, the country also reported 19 such...
    Thursday, 8th September, 2011
  • Vietnam is estimated to have disbursed VND634 billion ($30.48 million) worth of state funds for its health projects in the first eight months of this year, fulfilling 70.5% of the year’s set target. The figure represents a slightly on-year rise of 6...
    Thursday, 8th September, 2011
  • The Austrian government will provide EUR12.5 million in official development assistance (ODA) for the second phase of a project on upgrading medical devices in Vietnam existing hospitals. An agreement to this effect was signed in Hanoi Aug 29, the...
    Thursday, 8th September, 2011
  • Vietnam has attracted only $22 million worth of foreign direct investment (FDI) in two health and social support projects in the first eight months of this year. The figure accounts for just 0.23% of the country’s total FDI of $9.57 billion during...
    Thursday, 8th September, 2011
  • The France-based Sanofi Group plans to build a high tech pharmaceutical plant in Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City, said Thomas Kelly, senior vice president of Sanofi Asia.Kelly released the information at a meeting with HCM City...
    Thursday, 8th September, 2011
  • India is ready to support Vietnam in the training of scientific experts, said Prof. Dr. Dinesh Abrol, President of the Indian Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). The Indian official made the statement at a working meeting with a...
    Tuesday, 6th September, 2011
  • Vietnamese Prime Minister has approved to add $297,000 to a HIV prevention project funded by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in an extension to March 31, 2012. The Ministry of Police will cooperate with the UNODC and Vietnamese...
    Tuesday, 6th September, 2011
  • Vietnam’s Center for Foreign Investment Studies (CFIS) and Ernst & Young, one of the world’s largest professional services firms, just inked a cooperative deal on establishing a charge-free advisory counter in Hanoi. Under the deal, Ernst &...
    Tuesday, 6th September, 2011
  • The Vietnam Fatherland Front in Thua Thien-Hue province in coordination with the Vietnam Bank for Industry and Trade (Vietinbank) has presented 105 houses and some other gifts to ethnic minority people in Hong Thuy village, A Luoi district. These...
    Tuesday, 6th September, 2011