The Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training and Microsoft Group on Mar 18 signed an agreement to continue an IT training cooperation program in the 2010-2013 period. Under the “Partners in Learning” (PiL) program, Microsoft will help local...
Vietnam and Russia on Mar 15 agreed to set up a joint high-level university on the foundation of the existing Le Quy Don Technical University, said Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education and Training, Nguyen Thien Nhan, who just ended a six...
Vietnamese senior officials proposed for stronger ties with France in the fields of education, infrastructure and anti-climate change, the Communist Party of Vietnam said on its website Mar 18. Minister-Chairman Nguyen Xuan Phuc of the...
Solidarity Service International (SODI), a German non-governmental organization, has pledged to help implement a EUR471,778 project on bomb and mine clearance and resettlement in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Tri. Local authorities and the...
The Ministry of Construction has proposed the government to spend VND1.5 trillion ($78.5 million) from state budget to build houses for 180,000 poor families. The ministry’s move is to assist provinces nationwide that are facing difficulties in...
Friesland Campina Company has donated VND1.5 billion ($78,500) to build a school for ethnic students in the central highlands province of Kon Tum’s Sa Loong commune. This is the sixth school that the company’s Learning Encouragement Program namely...
Provincial People’s Committee of Phu Yen has issued Decision 253/2010/QD to encourage people of ethnic minorities to grow forest, which is within the government’s five-million-hectare forestry program.Under the decision, each family will receive 700...
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung presented 30 laptops as gift for six boarding schools for ethnic minorities at a ceremony in Hanoi on March 12. Four of the six beneficiaries came from northern provinces, one from the central region and one from the...
The Vietnam Mode International Ltd. Co. (Vinamode) has opened a woman fashion shoes plant that is capitalized $3.3 million and funded by Japan’s LPD Ltd. Co. at the Trang Due industrial park in Haiphong city. The wholly foreign-owned plant will be...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will give a $1.4-million non-refundable aid to Greater Mekong sub-region (GMS)’s technical assistance project, the Vietnam News Agency said March 8. The fund, aimed to raise GMS state employees’ skills in public...
