General News

  • Chile is working out a project to support Vietnam to improve quality of its post-harvest farm produce, the Thoi bao Kinh te Saigon newspaper reported, citing a Chilean trade official. Jaime Riversa, trade commissioner with Commercial Department...
    Monday, 1st November, 2010
  • The German government will fund EUR300 million for Vietnam next two years, Secretary of the National Economic Cooperation and Development Gudrun Kopp said at a recent negotiation with the Vietnamese government in Hanoi. The fund will help Vietnam...
    Monday, 1st November, 2010
  • The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Korea Eximbank) will maximize its lending to Vietnam to develop transport infrastructure, the bank’s Chairman cum General Director Dong Soo Kim said. The Kexim chairman made the statement at his meeting with Prime...
    Monday, 1st November, 2010
  • The U.S. Government, through its Agency for International Development (USAID), has announced a new project worth $11.7 million to continue assisting Vietnam to enhance trade and integration into the global economy. The three-year project, lasting...
    Monday, 1st November, 2010
  • The central Ninh Thuan provincial People’s Committee has approved two projects on building vocational educational establishments, worth VND110 billion. As scheduled, the two establishments will be put into operation in 2012. A project on building a...
    Monday, 1st November, 2010
  • The authorities of Bac Tra My district in the central province of Quang Nam have asked relevant agencies to investigate the missing of 20 ethnic minority youngsters at a local gold mine. According to Bac Tra My officials, over 20 young men of the...
    Monday, 1st November, 2010
  • The Asian Development Bank (ADB)’s Board of Directors approved a poverty reduction program with a total investment of $108 million for Vietnam on Oct 25, ADB senior official said. The funding will be used for upgrading 600 kilometers of rural roads...
    Monday, 1st November, 2010
  • Enhancing forests’ contributions to hunger elimination, poverty alleviation, environmental services and livelihood improvement is the general objective of a project funded by the Asia-Pacific Network for Sustainable Forest Management and...
    Monday, 1st November, 2010
  • The central province of Phu Yen will spend over VND 363 billion giving vocational training to 52,000 rural laborers, mainly beneficiaries, the poor and those whose cultivated land was revoked, during the next five years. The vocational training will...
    Monday, 1st November, 2010
  • A song writing contest about Agent Orange victims has recently been launched in Hanoi by the Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/ Dioxin (VAVA) and the Vietnam Musicians Association. Entries should focus on encouraging AO victims to...
    Monday, 1st November, 2010