The Vietnamese Prime Minister has approved 14 sub-projects under the first phase of an urban water supply and wastewater treatment project worth $200 million to be funded by the World Bank (WB), the government said on its website Oct 4. Of the total...
The Vietnamese Prime Minister has approved a $154 million project on reducing water leakage and expanding water supply networks of Saigon Water Corporation (Sawaco) between 2011 and 2015. Of the sum, $138 million was funded by the Asian Development...
The Vietnamese Prime Minister has approved a project for biodiversity preservation in the forest ecosystems funded by the German government through the German Organization for Technical Cooperation (GTZ). The project comprises EUR3 million from the...
Authorities of Vietnam’s central province of Quang Nam have decided to spend more than VND423 billion ($21.69 million) on a project of water drainage and wastewater treatment from now up to 2014. The project will be carried out in seven wards of Tam...
The number of dead and missing people in central Vietnam had climbed to 55 and 22 as of Oct 7 respectively, the Thoi Bao Kinh Te Sai Gon newspaper reported Oct 7. Floods beginning Oct 4 also caused an initial damage of nearly VND2.2 trillion ($112....
The Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training said that it would enroll 450 more state employees for doctoral training programs abroad this year from the state budget, state media reported Oct 05. Enrollees will include lecturers and staffs who...
Vietnam’s southern metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City has launched a soft skill training program for pupils and students of 80 schools, colleges and universities citywide, state media reported. The three-month program which began early Sept will provide...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed an agreement to finance $70 million for a vocational training project in Vietnam, state media reported. The project costs a total of $78 million with $8-million coming from the government of Vietnam’s...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Planning and Investment and the World Bank (WB) are working to review the WB-funded projects and seek ways to accelerate implementation paces of those. Many WB-funded projects are being carried out at snail paces in...
Vietnamese Prime Minster Nguyen Tan Dung has approved to borrow $1.61 billion from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for an expressway project in the south. Dung assigned the Ministry of...
