The Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) is expected to spend VND700 billion ($37.9 million) to develop self-made school equipment for preschools, secondary and high schools in the 2010-2014 period. The funding will be used to make...
The US-based Boeing Company inaugurated two schools in the Mekong Delta provinces of Can Tho and An Giang on Dec. 7. The schools built at a total cost of around $125,000 from Boeing company are Thanh Tien 2 Primary school in Can Tho province and Dao...
Vietnam will spend VND10 billion ($559,221) on allowances for teachers next year, the Sai Gon Giai Phong newspaper reported Dec. 10, citing a senior official. Le Van Hoc, vice chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam’s Culture, Education, Youth...
A mission from the ASEAN University Network (AUN) started assessing first four university training programs in Vietnam in line with AUN standards on Dec 6. The programs were Information Technology (IT), Electronics-Telecommunications, Computer...
Vietnam’s northern province of Ha Nam has operated a vocational training school with the funding of $87,000 from the Japanese government. The school will help train 1,000 female workers per year, the Thanh Nien newspaper reported Dec. 11. At present...
Vietnam JS Bank for Industry and Trade or Vietinbank has granted VND5.6 billion ($303,000) to four poor districts in the northern province of Phu Tho. The money was used to build 200 houses and two schools in the districts, the Thoi Bao Kinh Te Viet...
Sweden pledged to grant $11 million to a poverty reduction program in the second phase in Vietnam from now up to 2011, state media reported. Swedish Ambassador to Vietnam Rolf Bergman and Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Cao...
The southern province of Tra Vinh has so far spent VND500 billion to build houses for poor families, the Nhan Dan newspaper reported. Of the sum, VND36 billion was loaned by the Bank for Social Policies, the newspaper noted. The province has 27,317...
Atlantic Philanthropies, a U.S. non-governmental organization, has provided a financial assistance to implement a five-year project to improve healthcare for ethnic minorities in Vietnam through boosting medical education by 2013. The project,...
Up to 166 million publications of 22 newspapers and magazines valued at VND263 billion in total have been granted to ethnic minority people across Vietnam between 2006 and 2009 with aims to help them raise awareness of Party, State policies and laws...
