More than 100 experts from the U.S., Japan, Australia, Cambodia, Indonesia and the Philippines gathered at an international seminar in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi on Sept 9 to seek measures against infectious diseases in the Southeast Asian...
The German Reconstruction Bank (KfW) signed a nine-year credit contract with the state-run Electricity of Vietnam Group (EVN) in Hanoi on Sept 7 to finance EUR120 million for the project “Enhancing energy efficiency in rural areas” in Vietnam. The...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide a $100-million loan to improve irrigation infrastructure in Vietnam, the state-run Vietnam News Agency said Sept 8. An agreement to this effect was signed between ADB and the State Bank of Vietnam in...
Ho Chi Minh City Management Authority for Urban Railways Sept 8 signed a cooperative agreement with a representative of the Spanish government to build the first phase of $1.85 billion metro route 5. The first phase of the route, which has a...
The Culture-Tourism Village of Vietnamese ethnic groups is scheduled to open on September 19 as a project in celebration of Thang Long-Hanoi millennium anniversary. Located on a 1,544-ha area in Dong Mo, Son Tay of Hanoi, the site is a complex of...
A resettlement program reserved for nomadic ethnic minority people has been carried out too slowly and needs to gather all the available resources to accomplish all of its goals by 2012, a supervising agency has said. The Nationality Council under...
VIEGRID Communication and Technology Company and Research for Development of Mountainous Region and Ethnic Minorities (RDME) have granted scholarships worth VDN180 million to help poor students in Vietnam’s central province of Thanh Hoa. The...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Planning and Investment coordinated with the World Bank (WB) to launch the second phase of the Northern Mountains Poverty Reduction Project in Hanoi on Sept 9, Deputy Minister Cao Viet Sinh said. Of the $165-million sum, $...
Sponsors from central Ha Tinh Province and HCM City, and the Ha Tinh Association of Victims of Agent Orange, offered 164 gifts and scholarships worth VND700 million ($35,900) to children and families affected by Agent Orange on Sept 3. The Vietnam...
Over 300 Vietnamese and German people joined a charity walk for Vietnamese Agent Orange /dioxin victims, in Bochum city, Germany , on September 9. First Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union’s Central Committee Vo Van Thuong, Vietnamese...
