The Saigon Times Foundation (STF) and Saigon Jewelry Holding Company (SJC) donated the first round of STF-SJC long-term scholarships to 15 poor studious students in HCMC. STF and SJC granted a total of VND150 million to the students, who are from...
Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi plans to build wastewater treatment systems at 12 state-run hospitals and medical units in a move to mitigate serious environment pollution. Other details about the plan have not been made available at this time, the...
The State Bank of Vietnam, the country’s central bank, has appointed the partly-privatized lender Vietcombank as the service bank for the $180-million Vietnam-Germany University project funded by the World Bank. Vietcombank is responsible of...
Vietnamese students are still weak at foreign languages though language training centers have been mushrooming in Vietnam, especially in big cities like Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City, experts said. Most local students just learn foreign languages...
The Vu A Dinh Scholarship Fund has received a donation of 600,000 from Japan’s Yasuhara group. At the receiving ceremony, Mr. Fukuda, representative from the group said that some other businesses in Osaka city also want to provide support to the...
A fourth-year student at the Hue University of Arts in Vietnam’s central province of Thua thien-Hue has won the Grand Prize at the second international Furoshiki (wrapping cloth) design competition in Japan. Phan Khanh Trang was awarded 100,...
CPA Australia has just granted 6 scholarships worth VND 300 million to excellent students in the international accounting masters programme at Swinburne University in Vietnam. CPA Australia (or the Australian Society of Certified Practicing...
More than 30 Canadian education institutions will participate in Canadian Education Fairs in Vietnam’s biggest cities of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in March. The fairs which will take place at the Melia Hotel in Hanoi on March 2 and at the Legend...
The Saigon Water Supply Corporation (Sawaco) will carry out a $154-million project including $138 million from the Asian Development Bank to reduce water leakage expand water supply networks in Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City by...
The Asia Development Bank (ADB) has pledged to lend $1 billion to help develop water supply system in Vietnam in the 2011-2020 period, said the Vietnamese Ministry of Construction’s Department of Infrastructure. Of the sum, $250 million will be...
