General News

  • The central highlands province of Dak Lak youth association has given loans worth nearly VND129 billion ($6.7 million) to 14,300 young people and organized 74 locations to provide vocational training and employment consulting for more than 7,800...
    Thursday, 1st April, 2010
  • The Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS) has made debut a book on Central Highlands epics, the biggest of its kind so far, in a bid to protect the intangible culture of ethnic people. The book titled Treasure Trove of Central Highlands Epics...
    Thursday, 1st April, 2010
  • Belgium enterprises will help the Vietnam central highlands province of Lam Dong in producing vegetable and flower, the Tuoi Tre newspaper reported Mar. 25, citing Hubert Cooremans, Belgium’s ambassador to Vietnam. The ambassador said at a visit to...
    Thursday, 1st April, 2010
  • The Japanese University of Tokyo, Chiba University and Showa Women’s University will join a conference on restoration of the ancient quarter in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi Mar 27, state media reported Mar. 26.  The conference will focus on...
    Thursday, 1st April, 2010
  • The World Bank (WB) has financed $51 million for a project worth $70 million to upgrade urban infrastructure systems of Rach Gia city in Kien Giang province, the Tuoi tre newspaper reported Mar. 25.  The project is expected to start in 2012 and...
    Thursday, 1st April, 2010
  • The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will finance $2.2 million to a plan worth $2.6 million to upgrade tourism infrastructure in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Binh in 2010. This is part of the bank-funded sub-Mekong tourism development project...
    Thursday, 1st April, 2010
  • The agricultural quality control arm of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) has agreed to help Ho Chi Minh City devise and monitor hygiene standards for pork. The Food and Agricultural Products Quality Development and Control...
    Thursday, 1st April, 2010
  • The German Reconstruction Bank (KfW), the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the European Investment Bank (EIB) will provide a combined $1.068 billion in loans for a metro project in Ho Chi Minh City. A memorandum of understanding to this effect was...
    Thursday, 1st April, 2010
  • Vietnam’s central province of Quang Ngai Mar. 23 started building a general hospital named Dang Thuy Tram that costs VND56 billion ($2.93 million) worth of g-bonds in Duc Pho Township. Covering on a site of 23,973 sq.m, the hospital is upgraded from...
    Thursday, 1st April, 2010
  • Standard Chartered Bank said Mar. 23 that it will grant $630,000 more to the Vietnam urban childhood blindness prevention project. The three-year project, to be funded through the Fred Hollows Foundation, is aimed at improving the quality of eye...
    Thursday, 1st April, 2010