The Vietnamese Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) has asked ministries, agencies, localities and economic groups to submit report on the implementation of all Official Development Assistance (ODA)-funded projects in the first half of this...
The Finnish government has funded EUR5.3 million for a project on solar energy application in rural areas and localities inhabited by ethnic minority people in Vietnam. The government of Vietnam will contribute EUR1 million in reciprocal capital for...
The World Bank (WB) will provide $390 million in loans for a $600-million project to upgrade urban areas in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta region, the Thoi bao Kinh te newspaper reported June 21. Under the project, the urban areas comprise Can Tho city, My...
Japan will lend $131 million to Cambodia to build a bridge across the Mekong River, in a move to facilitate the regional transport and trading, the Cambodian Information Center said on its website June 24. The bridge, which will be the longest...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will continue providing official development assistance (ODA) for Vietnam in the years to come, JeaJung Song ADB Executive Director said. He made the commitment at a meeting with the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV)...
French Vinci Construction Grands Projects has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Vietnam’s Deo Ca Investment JSC for construction of Ca Pass Tunnel in central Vietnam which is estimated to cost $501 million. Construction of the 5.7-...
The Canadian government and the European Union have pledged respectively CAD15 million ($14.4 million) and $9.8 million for Vietnam to boost the Southeast Asian country’s judiciary reform. Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Justice Hoang The Lien...
The World Bank (WB) has approved a credit worth $200 million for the third Rural Finance Project (RFP) in Vietnam, even though the second project has not yet been reviewed. It is a precedent which has never been applied for any WB-funded projects, a...
Authorities of the central province of Phu Yen have provided nearly 60 tons of iodized salt for 11,500 locals in Song Hinh district. The salts benefited local people in the fives communes of EaBa, EaLam, Ealy, Song Hinh and EaBia, the Nong Thon Ngay...
Up to 80 poor patients with facial deformities, who are ethnic minority people in the central highlands province of Dak Nong, have received free-of-charge operations starting June 21. The four-day program, co-held by the provincial General Hospital...
