Vietnam has set up the environment health management department in line with the Prime Minister’s Decree 22, 2010 to boost the management of the environment in the health sector. The department, which is under the Ministry of Health, will officially...
Vietnam’s Danang Eye Hospital opened a multi-functional eye treatment center costing $5 million funded by the U.S. Atlantic Philanthropies on April 28, the Tuoi tre newspaper reported. Covering a site of 5,500 square meters, the six-floor center...
Japan Bank of International Cooperation (JBIC) will continue providing loans for Vietnam, Executive Director Fumio told Vietnamese Finance Minister Vu Van Ninh on April 27. Mr. Fumio noted that JBIC will boost investments in the Asian region...
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) will send its experts to Vietnam this year to assist the country in agriculture, environment and education fields, said visiting OECD Deputy Secretary-General Mario Amano. Mario Amano...
The U.S. is willing to help Vietnam develop Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) in agricultural production, said Jeanne Bailey, an agricultural expert from the U.S. embassy to Vietnam. Bailey said the U.S. will help train Vietnamese scientists and...
The Asian Development Bank has approved a $100 million concessional loan to Vietnam to upgrade irrigation and drainage systems in the Red-Thai Binh River basin, the state-run Vietnam News Agency said. The loan will go to the construction of a campus...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has lent $16 million to a project to build a drainage system in the central province of Binh Thuan’s Phan Thiet city. Binh Thuan Drainage JSC will implement the project from now up to 2012, which is under the small...
The Vietnam Inland Waterway Administration has started the World Bank (WB)-funded packages worth $14 million to upgrade a 60-kilometer waterway linking An Giang with Dong Thap in Mekong Delta region. The administration plans to finish upgrading the...
Authorities of Vinh Phuc province have boosted infrastructure development for rural areas particularly the ethnic minorities, according a report of the Communist Party of Vietnam. So far 100% of 40 communes in total in the province have access roads...
The Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang will add VND17.7 billion ($931,500) to build houses for 748 poor families. The province has to date spent VND147.9 billion on constructing 6,292 needy households. Of the sum, VND46.2 billion came from the state...
