The first Congress of Ethnic Minority Groups in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak took place on Jan. 6, drawing 353 deputies representing 40 ethnic minority groups in the province.Tong Thi Phong, Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam...
Kien Giang province plans to spend VND133.5 billion ($7.2 million) to support ethnic minorities people this year. The funding will be used to provide housing land to 914 families and farming land to 4,132 others and funds to buy production equipment...
The committee of Ethnic Minorities is now building a socio-economic development project for four ethnic groups including the Mang, the La Hu, the Cong and the Co Lao in the three northern mountain provinces of Dien Bien, Lai Chau and Ha Giang....
The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs officially launched a project on Jan 5 to empower Vietnamese women who are guest workers overseas. With $250,000 sourced from the UNIFEM,...
Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) will provide a loan of $2.15 million for a bridge project in central Vietnam, the Quan doi Nhan dan newspaper reported Jan. 6. The 860-meter long bridge, which will connect Amaron and Kdam communes in...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has decided to lend $3.122 million to an agriculture and biogas program in Danang City. The program worth VND66 billion is aimed to improve quality of agro products and develop biogas sources in the central city, the...
Civil Construction Engineering Corp (Cienco) No.1, Civil Construction Engineering Corp (Cienco) No.8 and Thang Long Construction Corp (TLG) won packages worth VND1.8 trillion to build a 61.3-kilometer highway, local media reported. TLG and...
The Ministry of Health has proposed the government of Vietnam to increase investments for six major hospitals as part of efforts to deal with the overload, the Ha Noi Moi newspaper reported Jan. 5. They are Bach Mai Hospital, E Hospital’s...
Vietnamese Minister of Health Nguyen Quoc Trieu has approved a plan to spend VND1 trillion ($54 million) to build eight more cancer treatment centers, the Saigon Times Daily newspaper reported. Under the plan, the five centers will be located at...
The government of South Korea approved a development aid program for Vietnam including a fund for the construction of a 500-sickbed hospital that costs $35 million in the central province of Quang Nam. This will be the largest ODA project funded by...
