General News

  • More and more teachers in Vietnam’s southern metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City had given up their teaching to find higher-income careers, ringing an alarming bell with local authorities about the problem. Low salaries and bonuses as well as boring...
    Tuesday, 21st December, 2010
  • The World Bank (WB) and the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) Dec 16 signed an agreement in Hanoi under which the former will provide the latter $50 million for the second phase of the Higher Education Development Program (HEDP). This phase aims to...
    Tuesday, 21st December, 2010
  • Vietnam’s central province of Nghe An has kicked off a clean water supply project worth more than VND200 billion ($10.26 million) funded by the Finnish government. Of the sum, VND110 billion came from the Finnish government’s official development...
    Monday, 20th December, 2010
  • More than 208 workers of Sametex International Garment Co., Ltd, a wholly foreign-invested firm in Vietnam’s southern province of Long An, were hospitalized due to food poisoning on Dec 16. The workers reportedly suffered symptoms of stomachache and...
    Monday, 20th December, 2010
  • The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will fund total $69 million for forest conservation projects in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, the bank said Dec 13. The fund aims to protect more than 1.9 million hectares of threatened forest land which is home to...
    Monday, 20th December, 2010
  • The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a financial package worth $1.1 billion for two major transportation projects to help unclog overcrowded roadways in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s southern economic hub. Of the sum, ADB will provide $540...
    Monday, 20th December, 2010
  • Hundreds of local and foreign experts gathered at a conference in Hanoi on Dec 13 to discuss measures to provide children with best education methods and social services, state media reported. The event chaired by Swedish ambassador to Vietnam...
    Monday, 20th December, 2010
  • The government of Norway will fund $100 million to continue the project on protecting forests from emission reduction in Vietnam, state media reported. The fund is in line with the United Nations Collaborative initiative on Reducing Emissions from...
    Monday, 20th December, 2010
  • The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) helped organize an international conference to introduce a draft law on human trafficking prevention in Vietnam’s central province of Thua Thien-Hue from Dec 14-15. Through the Policy...
    Monday, 20th December, 2010
  • Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank (CACIB) will finance $8.4 billion for 40 development projects in Vietnam in the coming years, General Director Nguyen Nhon Quy said. The Dau tu newspaper quoted Quy as saying that the funding will go...
    Monday, 20th December, 2010