Foreign Trade University has just become the latest Vietnamese university to join the ASEAN University Network – Quality Assurance (AUN-QA), state media reported. According to Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bui Anh Tuan, rector of FTU, the university has...
South Korea on June 14 agreed with Vietnam to push ahead with a joint project to remove land mines and leftover unexploded ordnance (UXO) at the sites of hard fought battles in the Southeast Asian country. The support will help Vietnam remove...
Vietnam has completed the first phase of a national map that outlines mines and unexploded ordnances (UXO) left over from past wars after years of surveys and clearance efforts, the newswire VnExpress reported, citing the Ministry of Defense. The...
The Good Neighbours International (GNI) in Vietnam and Ninh Thuan People’s Committee presented gifts to poor households in Bac Ai and Ninh Phuoc districts. More than 500 gift packages of necessities for daily life were given to poor households in...
The southernmost province of Ca Mau has zoned 800,000 square meters of land for underprivileged Khmer ethnic residents this year. The provincial People’s Committee said 2,500 – 4,000 square meters of land will be given to each Khmer ethnic family...
The Government has issued a resolution on promoting human resources development in ethnic minority inhabited areas in 2016-2020, with orientation towards 2030. Objectives of the plan are to comprehensively improve health, awareness, manners,...
The World Bank on June 10 approved a $310-million aid to Vietnam to enhance its climate resilience and better livelihoods of 1.2 million people living in Mekong delta provinces which are affected by climate change. The funding to be provided by the...
Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam (Vietcombank), the country’s fourth largest bank by assets, has signed a deal to disburse the loan funded by the World Bank and the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) for an urban development...
A New Zealand funded project to produce safe vegetables is underway in an area of nearly 4,000 hectares covering four districts in Vietnam’s central province of Binh Dinh. The project, spanning from 2016 to 2021, has a total cost of nearly $1.286...
The Asian Development Bank will scale up its development aid for Vietnam to more than $1 billion a year, as part of efforts to help the Southeast Asian country to implement its socio-economic development plans for 2016-2020 alongside challenges...
