Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi will spend VND48 billion ($2.5 million) to build houses for more than 3,600 poor households this year as part of efforts to celebrate the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long - Hanoi. Deputy Head of the municipal...
More than 16,000 poor families in Bac Kan province in northern Vietnam will receive a total of VND6.869 billion in cash from the Vietnamese government in line with Decision 102/2009/QD-Ttg. Bac Kan still remains to be a poor province with 103 out of...
Engineers from Lung Lo Construction Company discovered a 245-kg bomb at the two-meter depth in the 15A highway in the central province of Ha Tinh on May 19. The bomb was left by the U.S. army during the Vietnam War.
The United Nations (UN) has funded more than $4.6 million to a project to improve the capabilities of three Vietnamese provinces and cities in responding to climate change, reducing vulnerability and controlling Green House Gas emissions, state...
The French Development Agency (AFD) has committed to add EUR20 million in loan for Vietnam’s support program to respond to climate change (SP-RCC), the French Embassy to Hanoi said in a statement May 14. Earlier, the Japanese government funded JPY10...
The Hanoi departments of education and training and finance have urged high schools to subsidize poor students’ final exam fees to prevent quitting on financial grounds. High school final exam fees are VND143,000 ($7.5) but students rated as poor...
Vietnam has improved 66,912 schools nationwide over the past two years, according to a report by the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) to Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on May 10. The country has also built and upgraded 20,463 communal...
Vietnam will send 100 candidates to Japan for post-graduation training courses next April or October, the Thoi Nay newspaper reported, quoting the Ministry of Education and Training. The ministry noted that the Japanese government will grant...
The Hanoi Department of Planning and Investment has announced a VND1.088 trillion ($57.2 million) project to build an international education village, the first of its kind in the city. The future village, which will cover an area of 31.6...
Japan’s international retailing group AEON Co., Ltd. granted $3.1 million on May 12 to a project to build 30 primary schools in Vietnam’s central province of Thua Thien-Hue in the next three years. The Vietnamese side will contribute the reciprocal...
