Vietnam recorded 143,700 hungry households last month, with 587,900 hungry people, mainly from northern mountainous provinces, central coastal areas and central highlands region, the General Statistics Office said. Prolonged bitter cold affecting...
A landmine suddenly exploded on March 13, leaving a person injured in Vietnam’s central province of Thua Thien-Hue while doing earthwork for building houses. The victim, a 40-year-old woman from Thuy Phu district had a part of her right leg...
Around 8.4 million Vietnamese people or 9.66% of its population will likely suffer from water shortfall by 2050, warned the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB). The ADB attributed that Vietnam is listed among the five hardest-hit countries by climate...
A three-day conference on Vu Gia-Thu Bon river basins took place in Vietnam’s central city of Danang on March 14 with participation of experts from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and local agencies. Along the river basins, massive constructions of...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) has criticized the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau for failing to build a basic infrastructure for environmental protection at industrial parks (IPs) and complexes. Only two...
The Norwegian government will fund $100 million to help Vietnam implement the second phase of the Program on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD). The information was released at a recent...
Vietnam spent VND18.5 trillion ($886.44 million) on building schools and communal houses for teachers in the 2008-2010 period, said the Ministry of Education and Training. More than 75,932 classrooms and 21,435 communal houses for teachers were...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has ratified a protocol of a project to build Hanoi University of Science and Technology with the loan from Asian Development Bank (ADB). The Ministry of Education and Training has been assigned to assist...
Students of Vietnam’s Hanoi University of Foreign Trade won the first prize at the McKinsey Mekong Business Plan Challenge Final 2011 held recently in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. This is the second year Vietnamese students have participated in the...
A bus load of high school teenagers from International School HCMC went down to Thu Thua Town in Long An Province on Saturday to build three houses for poor families in a Habitat for Humanity project. The 27 student, who had raised the money...
