Vietnam is estimated to have more than 20,000 citizens died of diseases relevant to unhygienic and dirty water yearly, an official of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said. Diarrhea is blamed for half of these fatalities, UNICEF...
Dengue fever killed 74 out of total 109,300 affected people in cities and provinces of Vietnam in the first eleven months of this year, said the General Statistics Office. In Nov, the disease killed 19 out of 20,700 affected people, the office added...
Vietnam’s central province of Thua Thien-Hue has approved a project to build an obstetric and pediatric hospital with a total investment of nearly VND156 billion ($8 million). The 200-sickbed hospital will be built on a site of 22,175 square meters...
The U.K’s ReCycled Refused International Group (RCR) plans to invest a total of $8.92 billion in its projects in Vietnam under public-private partnership (PPP) form, the Dau tu newspaper reported Nov 29. Of the sum, RCR will pour $3.69 billion to...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung approved a project for promoting natural disaster management, with $900,000 non-refundable capital granted by the Global Capacity for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) under the World Bank (WB). Dung...
The Japanese government and some Osaka firms are studying methods for building railways in big cities in Vietnam to reduce traffic jams at the cities, the Dien dan Doanh nghiep newspaper reported Nov 30. Companies from Japan’s Osaka will seek...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will extend $95 million to help Vietnam and Laos upgrade roads in their transport corridor, the state-run Vietnam News Agency said Nov 30. It’s necessary to improve the section running the Vietnam's central province...
The UN Development Program (UNDP) has helped Vietnam hold a training course on improving management capacity for women in the southern metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City and the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau. The training course, the first of its...
The Spanish Agency of International Cooperation for Development (AECID) has made efforts to ease pains of Vietnamese victims of human trafficking cases through the launch of a project four years ago. The project named Ngoi Nha Binh Yen or a peaceful...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved an extension of a $60 million-equivalent loan for Vietnam to expand the country’s financial sector reforms, state media reported Dec 1. The loan aims to help develop the country’s non-bank financial...
