Ho Chi Minh City is seeking the approval of the Ministry of Planning and Investment to add a $250,000 water supply project of Saigon Water Corp. (Sawaco) to the list of ODA-funded projects this year. If approved, the project will be implemented...
The Government of Vietnam has approved the Vietnam Bank of Social Policy to lend VND5 trillion ($270.6 million) to poor students this year. This year is the third consecutive year the program on soft credit loans for poor students has been carried...
The government of French has pledged to grant $144 million to Hanoi University of Science and Technology to train lecturers, the government of Vietnam said on its website. The French side will also send lecturers to give lectures and undertake...
Vietnam will spend $2.59 billion to boost primary education in an effort to complete the national universalization of primary education in 2015, state media reported January 07. The funding part of the government’s National Program of Education For...
Vietnam is forecast to earn $3 billion-$3.2 billion from exporting six million tons of rice this year, up 16% in value from in 2009, the Nong Nghiep Vietnam newspaper reported Jan. 6, citing Chairman of the Vietnam Food Association (VFA). Chairman...
The northern province of Bac Ninh Dec. 29 detected two wartime mines in the Cau dyke, Dap Cau ward, Bac Ninh city. The mines, M72 produced by USSR, weighing 7.5 kg each, are under the management of local police and the city’s Military Steering...
About 8,000 women have been examined and treated for gynecological diseases free of charge this year under a medical program that targets poor women in remote areas, said Nguyen Thi Ngoc Phuong, deputy head of Ho Chi Minh City Sponsoring Association...
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the Vietnamese Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) and the Institute of Science co-held a conference in Hanoi on Dec. 28 to discuss ways to reduce poverty between 2011 and 2020....
Since the beginning of the year, the poor patients’ sponsor association of the southern province of Kien Giang has encouraged organizations and individuals to donate VND85 billion to support poor patients’ medical treatment, bringing the total...
Vietnam JS Bank for Industry and Trade or Vietinbank pledged to grant VND50 billion to build houses for poor people and VND15 billion to rebuild Lung Cu flagpole in the northern province of Ha Giang next year. In 2009, the lender donated VND45.5...
