General News

  • Vietnam and the U.S. signed Aug 5 a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the assistance project to implement the labor law and boost harmonized relations among industries in the Southeast Asian country. Under the MoU, the U.S. government will fund $...
    Tuesday, 10th August, 2010
  • Electricity of Vietnam supplies power to nearly 100,000 ethnic minority households in the Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) provinces of Dak Lak, Dak Nong, Lam Dong, Gia Lai and Kon Tum. The facility and the Government have invested VND1.3 trillion ($...
    Tuesday, 10th August, 2010
  • A TV series on the culture and lifestyle of the ethnic Khmer people living in Vietnam's southwest region will be filmed this week. The 30-part work, titled Hay Cung Em Dieu Sarikakeo (Join Me in the Sarikakeo Dance), is being made by Vang Mien Nam (...
    Tuesday, 10th August, 2010
  • The Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu’s Military Steering Committee defused two unexploded bombs and then used acid to destroy them on Aug 4. The bombs were believed to be MK 18s - were dropped during the American War; one weighed about 125...
    Monday, 9th August, 2010
  • The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) has organized a wide range of charity activities to support Agent Orange/dioxin victims nationwide on the occasion of the Agent Orange Day on August 10. A total of VND601 million and 22 wheelchairs, two houses and a...
    Monday, 9th August, 2010
  • Vietnam’s Mekong Delta provinces have invested over VND2 trillion in reducing poverty for Khmer ethnic minority people over the past ten years. The government’s Program 135 on assisting poorest communes benefited locals at 207 communes in the first...
    Tuesday, 3rd August, 2010
  • Japan and Vietnam will sign agreements to provide $1 billion in official development assistance (ODA) for two seaport projects in Vietnam in September, the Lao dong newspaper reported July 29, citing Ambassador Mitsuo Sakaba. Construction of Lach...
    Tuesday, 3rd August, 2010
  • U.S.-based Federal Owens - Meiwah International Holdings (FO MIH) has got a license to build a tourism complex in Vietnam’s central province of Ninh Thuan, said the local authorities. Covering an area of 250 hectares, the complex is designed to...
    Tuesday, 3rd August, 2010
  • The U.S. Atlantic Philanthropies (AP) and the Australian Fred Hollows Foundation (FHF) have funded a combined $2.06 million for a project to improve the capability of medical workers in the Vietnam National Institute of Ophthalmology (VNIO)....
    Tuesday, 3rd August, 2010
  • Vietnam reported 88 food poisoning cases since early this year, killing 32 people and affecting nearly 3,000 others, Deputy Head of the Food Hygiene and Safety Department Nguyen Thanh Phong said. Compared to the same period of last year, the number...
    Tuesday, 3rd August, 2010