Some five thousand people joined a charity walk in Ho Chi Minh City to raise funds for the poor on November 14. The fourth ‘Unity for the Poor’ walk was attended by Chairwoman of the municipal People’s Council Pham Phuong Thao and Chairman of the...
On November 14th, the Vietnam Association of Study Promotion, the Investment Newspaper and the Nam Dinh provincial Association of Study Promotion presented 104 scholarships to outstanding students who come from poor families in the province....
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has pledged to fund $34 million to rid Vietnam’s central airport of Danang of Agent Orange. The two-year project is aimed to ensure that plants can again grow in contaminated land, the...
The Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper in coordination with Vingroup, Ha Tinh province’s Department of Education and Training, and the Youth Union, organized a ceremony on November 26 to give scholarships to 342 flood victims. The Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper...
Ho Chi Minh City has proposed the Ministry of Planning and Investment to use official development assistance (ODA) loans from the Dutch government in 2011 for a climate change project. The project, which is slated for the kick-start in the next four...
The Japanese Kansai Economic Federation (Kankeiren) will help Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City deal with serious submergences, the Tuoi Tre newspaper reported Nov 25, citing a representative of the federation. Hiroshi Shiroi made...
Vietnam’s Mekong Delta region plans to build 30 wastewater treatment plants from now through 2020, in line with an overall planning recently approved by the prime minister, the Dat Viet newspaper reported Nov 23. Under the planning on water drainage...
Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi will implement a VND1.29 trillion ($66.15 million) project to build systems of domestic wastewater collection and treatment, using official development assistance (ODA) loans from the French government. Under the...
Vietnam targets to reduce ratio of clean water leakage to below 25% by 2015 from 30% in 2009 under the national program on tap water loss prevention which has recently been approved by the prime minister. The ratio is expected to be 18% in 2020 and...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will lend $49 million to a project on infectious disease control in three Indochina countries of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia from now to 2016. Of the sum, Vietnam will receive as many as $27 million, Laos will get $12...
