General News

  • Vietnamese Minister of Health Nguyen Quoc Trieu has urged the private sector to invest into the healthcare field in a bid to improve the service quality and reduce the financial burden for the state. Trieu made the call at a conference on public -...
    Monday, 31st May, 2010
  • The Vietnamese Ministry of Health said that it will inspect management of medicine prices in central hospitals and a number of district-level ones at end-June. The move followed local people’s complaint about uncontrolled medicine price hikes in...
    Monday, 31st May, 2010
  • SNV Netherlands Development Organization provided EUR3.7 million ($4.52 million) in non-refundable aid for Vietnam to carry out a project to build 165,672 biogas cellars in 50 cities and provinces through 2012. The project is expected to help...
    Monday, 31st May, 2010
  • The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and authorities of Dien Bien province have signed a record of discussion on a $5.5 million sustainable forest management project in Vietnam’s northwestern region. The project will encourage...
    Monday, 31st May, 2010
  • Japan will provide technical assistances for Vietnam to build Hanoi-Noi Bai express railway, using Japanese Shinkansen technology, the Tuoi Tre newspaper reported, citing the Vietnamese Ministry of Transport. Under a memorandum of understanding...
    Monday, 31st May, 2010
  • The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has announced that it will stop providing official development assistance (ODA) loans to Nhat Tan bridge project in Hanoi if the capital city fails to complete site clearance on schedule. The local...
    Monday, 31st May, 2010
  • The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will fund JPY18.3 billion ($203.6 million) to Vietnam’s infrastructure upgrade and water environment improvement projects, the Vietnam News Agency said. Under the two agreements signed between the...
    Monday, 31st May, 2010
  • South Korea has pledged to provide $300 million from its Economic Development Cooperation Fund (EDCF) for Vietnam this year, said the South Korean Ambassador to the Southeast Asian nation Pak Suk Hwan.  The sum, which will fund Hanoi-Haiphong...
    Monday, 31st May, 2010
  • The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) said on its website that it and the World Bank signed a loan agreement worth of $688 million for five projects on power, poverty reduction, healthcare, environmental sanitation and rural water supply in Vietnam May 25...
    Monday, 31st May, 2010
  • Vu A Dinh Scholarship Fund has provided ethnic students with 30,000 scholarships over the past eleven years. So far the fund has built 24 classrooms and four toilets as well as ten teachers’ rooms for schools in provinces of Tra Vinh, Soc Trang,...
    Monday, 31st May, 2010