Ho Chi Minh City has proposed the Ministry of Planning and Investment to use official development assistance (ODA) loans from the Dutch government in 2011 for a climate change project. The project, which is slated for the kick-start in the next four...
The Japanese Kansai Economic Federation (Kankeiren) will help Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City deal with serious submergences, the Tuoi Tre newspaper reported Nov 25, citing a representative of the federation. Hiroshi Shiroi made...
Vietnam’s Mekong Delta region plans to build 30 wastewater treatment plants from now through 2020, in line with an overall planning recently approved by the prime minister, the Dat Viet newspaper reported Nov 23. Under the planning on water drainage...
Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi will implement a VND1.29 trillion ($66.15 million) project to build systems of domestic wastewater collection and treatment, using official development assistance (ODA) loans from the French government. Under the...
Vietnam targets to reduce ratio of clean water leakage to below 25% by 2015 from 30% in 2009 under the national program on tap water loss prevention which has recently been approved by the prime minister. The ratio is expected to be 18% in 2020 and...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will lend $49 million to a project on infectious disease control in three Indochina countries of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia from now to 2016. Of the sum, Vietnam will receive as many as $27 million, Laos will get $12...
Seven northern mountainous provinces in Vietnam have received 52 ambulances worth $3 million, which is part of the World Bank-funded Northern Uplands Health Support Project (NUP). Of the total, Cao Bang province was handed with 14 ambulances while...
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will fund $1 million to support Vietnam in identifying Vietnamese missing soldiers to mark the agency’s 10th anniversary in the Southeast Asian country, state media reported. The USAID...
Denmark will continue to help Vietnam improve children’s literature in the period 2011-2015 under an agreement signed between the countries on Nov 18, the state-run Vietnam News Agency said. The project will target children of the 10-14 age group,...
Border troops in Vietnam’s northern province of Lai Chau have taken part in various activities to help local ethnic minority people in 4 bordering communes in Muong Te district. On Nov 24 24th, the Border Guard’s High Command and the Lai Chau...
