Foreign and domestic donors have pledged VND34 billion ($1.79 million) for Vu A Dinh Scholarship Fund, a foundation of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union for poor and well performing ethnic students, in 2010. The sum was mobilized from donors at...
Authorities of Vietnam’s central province of Khanh Hoa have mobilized VND50 billion ($2.63 million) to build and upgrade houses for poor people in the province since 2000. The province has used the sum to build 3,850 houses and upgrade 2,276 ones...
The Vietnam Beverages Review has announced a project to grant scholarships worth of VND600 million to 2,000 poor students. The project, funded by the Tan Hiep Phat Beverage Group, will last 10 years (2010-2020), the review said at a press briefing...
Nearly 140 fuses, bullets and a single rocket were found at a construction site in the central highlands province of Kon Tum June 30, the Tien Phong newspaper reported July 2. Members of the province's military steering committee said there were...
A 980-kg bomb was successfully deactivated in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Binh's Kim Thuy commune June 29. The 2.9m-long bomb, with a diameter of 35cm, contained 445kg of explosive, the Gia Dinh & Xa Hoi reported July 1. Earlier, local...
Authorities Vietnam’s central province of Quang Nam July 1 approved a VND2 trillion ($104.97 million) project to clear wartime bombs and mines. The sum, coming from the state budget and foreign organizations, will be implemented on 54,160 hectares...
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and Global Environment Facility (GEF) have pledged $5 million for a project to clean up dioxin-contaminated areas in central Vietnam. The UNDP and the Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and...
The US-Vietnam Dialogue Group on Agent Orange/Dioxin last month proposed a 10-year plan to address the legacy of Agent Orange in Vietnam.
The Dialogue Group said in its Declaration and Plan of Action that it had two goals: cleaning dioxin-...
Authorities of Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi have approved a VND214 billion project to upgrade a clean water supply system in Ha Dong district beginning this year, the Thanh Nien newspaper reported June 23. Under the project, Ha Dong Water Supply...
The governments of Japan and France have provided a combined $134 million in official development assistance (ODA) for a support program to respond to climate change (SP-RCC) in Vietnam. Officials of the Vietnamese Ministry of Finance, the Japan...
