Natural disasters are estimated to leave 245 dead, 50 missing and 363 injured across Vietnam in the first eleven months of this year, the Central Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Control said. Four floods and heavy rains in the central region...
Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi plans to invest in various projects to upgrade water drainage systems in the inner city with the funding from the municipal budget, the Ha Noi Moi newspaper reported Dec 23. Of the sum, VND23.3 billion will be poured...
All schools across Vietnam are now provided with free-of-charge Internet services thanks to a joint program between the Ministry of Education and Training and the Viettel Telecom Group (Viettel), the Tin Tuc newspaper reported Dec 20. Between...
More than 200 educational experts from Japan and Vietnam gathered at a conference in Ho Chi Minh City on Dec 21 to share experience in preschool education and discuss measures to boost bilateral ties. Vietnam is trying its best to improve quality of...
The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) will fund 11.5 billion won (approximately $10 million) for construction of the Vietnam-Soutth Korea Technological College in Vietnam’s northern province of Bac Giang. The agency will send experts to...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training has required localities to reexamine the operation of private kindergartens, which have recently been at the center of several serious cases of child maltreatment. Unlicensed and poor quality private...
HCM City Housing Development Commercial JS Bank (HDBank) has signed a contract to provide a soft credit line of up to VND2 trillion to coffee bean suppliers of Vinacafe Buon Me Thuot JS Company. The contract was signed at a ceremony held by Vinacafe...
The Chinese Consul General in Ho Chi Minh City, Xu Mingliang, on December 22 handed over VND410 million ($21.02 million) to the “Fund for the Poor” of Vietnam’s southern province of Binh Duong. The sum was contributed by 23 Chinese companies and...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has agreed to set up a steering committee for repairing consequences of bombs and mines left in the Vietnam War. The committee led by the Prime Minister, minister of national defense and minister of labor,...
A photograph of a nine-year-old Vietnamese girl Nguyen Thi Ly with birth defects resulting from the Agent Orange during the Vietnam War has been named UNICEF’s 2010 Photo of the Year. The photo, taken by American Ed Kashi, was selected out of 1,263...
