General News

  • The Japanese and Italian governments have decided to grant urgent relief goods to help flood-hit victims in central Vietnam, the Cong An Nhan Dan newspaper reported Oct 27. The Japanese government will donate JPY20 million ($240,000) worth of goods...
    Thursday, 4th November, 2010
  • The Swiss Red Cross has provided VND1.6 billion ($82,000) as relief aid to victims hurt by Typhoon Ketsana in Vietnam’s central province of Phu Yen, the Voice of Vietnam Radio said Oct 28. Of the sum, VND1 billion will be given to EaBia commune and...
    Thursday, 4th November, 2010
  • Vietnamese authorities Oct 26 caught red-handed India’s Saitex International Co., Ltd of discharging untreated wastewater into the environment, the Cong An Nhan Dan newspaper reported Oct 28. Saitex’s untreated wastewater was dumped into the Saigon...
    Thursday, 4th November, 2010
  • Natural disasters are estimated to have  left 173 dead and missing, and 168 injured this month, the General Statistics Office (GSO) said Oct 28. Of the total, Quang Binh province reported the highest human loss of 72, followed by Ha Tinh with...
    Thursday, 4th November, 2010
  • Climate change, which is listed among the top three concerns globally after economic stability and terrorism, ranks the most concern for Vietnamese people, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC)’s survey showed. This is the first time...
    Thursday, 4th November, 2010
  • Universities and colleges in Vietnam are facing serious shortages of dormitories and libraries because up to 24 out of 196 educational institutions nationwide are operating without a library and only 18% of students in the country have got...
    Thursday, 4th November, 2010
  • Vietnam will raise expenses for scientific researches period 2011-2015 in an effort to boost the local education, state media reported Oct 28. Deputy Minister of Education and Training said at a meeting held in Hanoi Oct 27 that the country should...
    Thursday, 4th November, 2010
  • 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