Spain will grant EUR2.5 million to help Vietnam implement a four-year project to eliminate child labor practices, the state-run Vietnam News Agency said Mar 30. Under the terms of the agreement signed in Hanoi on Mar 29, the Vietnamese Ministry of...
Societe Generale, BNP Paribas of France and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp of Japan signed deals to lend a combined $174.4 million to Electricity of Vietnam Group (EVN) to develop the 100-MW Song Bung 2 hydropower plant in Vietnam. The loan will make...
The United Nations (UN) will fund $2 million to help Vietnam build labor institutions and improve the capabilities of trade unions to support local workers, the Thoi Bao Kinh Te newspaper reported April 2. An agreement on the issue was signed...
The World Bank (WB) will assist Vietnam to build up a project on science and technology renovation, the WB’s Vice Chairman Janamitra Devan at a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan April 1. Nhan proposed the WB help Vietnam organize...
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Ministry of Planning and Investment Mar 31 co-held a conference on building Vietnam’s socio-economic strategy for 2011-2020. The UNDP has announced the results of its studies on socio-economic...
Credit Suisse Bank will arrange $200 million in loans for the state-owned Vietnam National Coal-Mineral Industries Group (Vinacomin), the Dau tu newspaper reported April 2. Seven international financial institutions have signed agreements to provide...
Lien Viet Commercial Joint Stock Bank (LienVietBank) Mar. 28 donated VND15 billion ($785,300) to help build a cancer hospital in Vietnam’s central city of Danang. Of the sum, VND5 billion came from LienVietBank and the rest from Him Lam Joint Stock...
Doctors of Singaporean ParkwayHealth Group will provide free-of-charge check-ups to Vietnamese cancer patients at its representative office in Hanoi on April 4, the Ha noi moi newspaper reported Mar. 29. As a leading healthcare group in Singapore,...
Ho Chi Minh City plans to invest VND1.5 trillion ($80.8 million) to build a 1,000-sickbed cancer hospital to reduce the workload at its tumor hospital. The money will be sourced from the city budget and g-bonds, the Thanh nien newspaper reported....
The Vietnam Administration of HIV/AIDS Control (VAAC) under the Ministry of Health said that 1,628 new cases of HIV infection were detected across the country in Mar, up 27.5% against Feb. In March, 533 AIDS developers and 225 deaths of the disease...
