The Japanese New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) has funded $17 million for a project of building industrial waste treatment system in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi. The system will cover one hectare at the Nam Son...
Israeli firms will assist Ho Chi Minh City to train experts and officials in the fields of water management and wastewater treatment, Nguyen Thanh Tai, vice-chairman of the municipal People’s Committee said. Tai released the information at the...
The French embassy in Hanoi has funded VND2.5 billion ($138,786) for a project to build a school in Vietnam’s central province of Thua Thien-Hue. The project costing a total of VND4.3 billion is aimed to construct three-story secondary school in Hue...
The Ministry of Education and Training has asked relevant agencies to tighten control over student-for-hire service which has become booming one in the Southeast Asian country’s training system. Students have been hired to attend in-service or...
Three Vietnamese women have won L’Oreal – UNESCO scholarship s 2010 for scientific researches, state media reported Oct 20. Winners include Doctor Nguyen Thi Van Anh from Hanoi University of Science, doctors Dinh Thi Mai Thanh and Doan Thi Mai Huong...
Japanese Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City has agreed to provide a non-refundable aid worth $195,813 to two educational projects in Vietnam, state media reported Oct 22. The fund will comprise $91,367 for equipping Dinh Quan Vocational Center in...
Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minster Pham Gia Khiem has agreed the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) to borrow $27 million from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for the second phase of a project on infection disease prevention for Mekong Sub-region countries....
Two people in Vietnam’s central province of Phu Yen’s Song Cau town died on Oct 13 on suspect of liver and eggs of puffer fish. The victims had a lunch with liver and eggs of puffer fish on the same day, the Lao Dong newspaper reported Oct 14. Local...
Japan’s southern province of Fukuoka has pledged to help Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi protect environment and manage surface water resources under a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between authorities of the two sides in Hanoi Oct 11....
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) will fund nearly $27.5 million for projects on climate change, biodiversity preservation and land degradation prevention in Vietnam in the next four years, Nguyen Van Tai from the GEF said. The information was...
