The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has announced that it will stop providing official development assistance (ODA) loans to Nhat Tan bridge project in Hanoi if the capital city fails to complete site clearance on schedule. The local...
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will fund JPY18.3 billion ($203.6 million) to Vietnam’s infrastructure upgrade and water environment improvement projects, the Vietnam News Agency said. Under the two agreements signed between the...
South Korea has pledged to provide $300 million from its Economic Development Cooperation Fund (EDCF) for Vietnam this year, said the South Korean Ambassador to the Southeast Asian nation Pak Suk Hwan. The sum, which will fund Hanoi-Haiphong...
The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) said on its website that it and the World Bank signed a loan agreement worth of $688 million for five projects on power, poverty reduction, healthcare, environmental sanitation and rural water supply in Vietnam May 25...
Vu A Dinh Scholarship Fund has provided ethnic students with 30,000 scholarships over the past eleven years. So far the fund has built 24 classrooms and four toilets as well as ten teachers’ rooms for schools in provinces of Tra Vinh, Soc Trang,...
Authorities of the central highlands province of Kon Tum have spent VND710 billion to support 34,860 households of ethnic minorities to resettle since 1998. The local authorities also subsidized 50% of the bank loans for them to grow rubber plants...
Rural Development Centre (RUDEC) under Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development and Institute for Studies of Society, Economy and Environment (iSEE) organized a seminar on land, culture, life and social issues of ethnic...
The central city of Danang Fatherland Front has mobilized VND50 billion ($2.6 million) to the Fund for the poor over the past ten years, Nguyen Dang Hai, deputy head of the Vietnam Fatherland Front in the city said. In 2009 alone, the city mobilized...
Two non-governmental organizations, Bread for the World and Agricultural Development Denmark Asia (ADDA), have pledged to fund $14.4 million for poverty reduction projects in Vietnam from now to 2014. Representatives of the two NGOs and President of...
The new poverty line for the 2011-2015 period has been submitted to the government of Vietnam, the Ministry of Planning and Investment said at a conference on orientations for poverty reduction programs which was held by the Ministry of Labor and...
