The governments of Vietnam and Mexico will boost cooperation in the fields of natural resources management and environmental protection, the state-run Vietnam News Agency said late Dec 9. The information was released at a meeting between Vietnamese...
The ratio of Vietnamese disadvantaged children going to school increased to 96.3% in 2009 from 81% in 2003 thanks to a project funded by the World Bank (WB) in the 2003-2010 period. Under the Primary Education for Disadvantaged Children (PEDC)...
Saigon Co.op, operator of the Co.opMart supermarket chain, on Tuesday awarded 150 scholarships worth VND5 million each to studious poor students nationwide. Students who received the scholarships will be given the opportunity to work for Saigon Co....
The building of new class and teacher rooms, toilets and the supply of clean water was the tangible result of the Primary Education for Disadvantaged Children, or PEDC, project, a workshop in Ha Noi was told yesterday. Such facilities did not exist...
The Vietnam Women's Union and the Spain's Agency for International Development and Co-operation (AECID) on Dec 5 launched an information campaign on fighting against human trafficking in the Southeast Asia country. The launching ceremony which...
The World Bank (WB) will provide more official development assistance (ODA) for Vietnam with its expectation in the coming years, the Victoria Kwakwa, WB Country Director in Vietnam said. “Vietnam has become a middle-income country and it can easily...
International donors pledged to provide Vietnam with $7.905 billion in official development assistance (ODA) in 2011, just 2% lower than last year’s record high of $8 billion. Despite a slight drop, international donors’ ODA commitment for...
The U.S. is willing to help Vietnam develop its nuclear facilities, but not enriching uranium, Ambassador Glyn Davies, Washington's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a press conference in Hanoi Dec 8.“Our government...
The UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) has pledged to boost gender equality in Vietnam to help the country achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, said an UN official at a conference in Hanoi Dec 8. The organization targets to raise...
Ten new houses, ten breeding cow and ten gifts have been presented to households in six ethnic minority villages in the border commune of Dac Nhoong, Dac Glay district, Kon Tum Central Highland province. The General Staff and the Border Gate...
