General News

  • The Vietnamese the Ministry of Health’s Preventive Medicine Department on March 29 joined hands with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to start the second phase worth $30 million of an infectious disease control project in the country. This is part...
    Tuesday, 5th April, 2011
  • The Vietnam Agency for Radiation and Nuclear Safety has recorded radioactive isotopes Cs-137 in Hanoi’s atmosphere, head of the agency Doctor Trinh Van Giap said. This means that the capital city is now contaminated with both I-131 and Cs-137...
    Tuesday, 5th April, 2011
  • Vietnam will build an online blood bank this year in a move to ease the country’s severe lack of blood for medical treatment, the An Ninh Thu Do newspaper reported Mar 31. The information was released at a meeting in Hanoi on March 30 to review the...
    Tuesday, 5th April, 2011
  • The Kuwaiti government will provide a $14.6 million loan through the Kuwait Fund to help Vietnam’s central province of Ha Tinh develop its infrastructure system, the government said on its website. The loan agreement was signed by Vietnamese Deputy...
    Tuesday, 5th April, 2011
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    Tuesday, 5th April, 2011
  • The World Bank (WB) Mar 29 approved one loan and three credits totaling $570 million for development projects in Vietnam, the WB said on its Press Release on March 30.  Of the sum, $180 million will be used to scale up and reinforce Vietnam’s...
    Tuesday, 5th April, 2011
  • Vietnam, Netherlands will increase in a variety of fields, especially port construction, transportation and logistics in the coming time, said Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai said. Hai made the statement at the conference on port cooperation...
    Tuesday, 5th April, 2011
  • The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV), the country’s central bank, yesterday appointed Lien Viet Commercial JS Bank (LienVietBank) to arrange a loan of $900 million funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to the Mong Duong 1 coal-fired power project....
    Tuesday, 5th April, 2011
  • Animal husbandry and feed companies in Vietnam and the Netherlands will cooperate in quality registration, management, food safety, and enhance closer relations between breeders and businesses. Dutch Minister of Agriculture and Foreign Trade Henk...
    Tuesday, 5th April, 2011
  • The Culture-Tourism Village of Vietnamese Ethnic Groups has been enlarged with an additional 700 hectares from the Dong Mo farm, according to the Management Board of the site. Located in Dong Mo, Son Tay, Hanoi, the Vietnamese Ethnic Culture-Tourism...
    Tuesday, 5th April, 2011