General News

  • The German government will provide EUR1.5 million in official development assistance (ODA) through the Organization for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) for a EUR1.65-million project to improve environment in Vietnam’s central city of Danang. ...
    Monday, 5th July, 2010
  • Foreign and domestic donors have pledged a combined of VND92.5 billion ($4.83 million) for a project to protect wildlife animals in the UNESCO-recognized Kien Giang World Biosphere Reserve this year. The reserve, covering a site of 1.15 million...
    Monday, 5th July, 2010
  • The Vietnamese government plans to build additional 30 earthquake observation stations with total investment of VND70-VND80 billion, raising total stations nationwide to 54, the Dai Doan Ket newspaper reported July 1. Vietnam needs to prepare...
    Monday, 5th July, 2010
  • Natural disasters damaged VND172 billion ($9 million) for Vietnam in the first six months of 2010, the General Statistics Office said July 1. The calamities left 33 deaths and injuries, destroyed 27,600 houses, 1,700 hectares of paddy and other...
    Monday, 5th July, 2010
  • The Japanese government has pledged to fund JPY2 billion ($22 million) for Vietnam to deal with climate change-caused natural disasters, the Tai Nguyen Moi Truong newspaper reported July 1. Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Mitsuo Sakaba and Vietnamese...
    Monday, 5th July, 2010
  • Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a VND1.39 trillion ($72.79 million) project to improve the quality of hydro-meteorological forecasts from now up to 2012, the government said on its website July 1. Of the total, nearly VND634...
    Monday, 5th July, 2010
  • People in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Ngai’s Ly Son district have been facing a sever shortage of domestic clean water over the past times, especially those on An Binh commune. This has been the longest shortage of water for ten recent years...
    Monday, 5th July, 2010
  • The Japanese government has decided to fund $220 million for a project to improve water environment in Vietnam’s central city of Hue, the state-run Vietnam News Agency said June 30. The project, via the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA...
    Monday, 5th July, 2010
  • Quang Ngai International General Hospital JSC began the construction on Quang Ngai-Cho Ray International General Hospital worth VND880 billion ($46.32 million) June 26. Located on a site of five hectares in the central city of Quang Ngai, the 500-...
    Monday, 5th July, 2010
  • Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi plans to build nine satellite emergency centers and three emergency hospitals to meeting the rising demand of locals, the Hanoi Moi newspaper reported June 29.  This is a part of Hanoi’s master planning of health...
    Monday, 5th July, 2010