Can Tho city must pay more attention to disbursement for the World Bank-funded Mekong Delta Region Urban Upgrading Project, which is scheduled to finish in 2017, Hoang Thi Hoa, an expert from the bank, said on January 6. Pressure is arising as the...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the French Development Agency (AFD) will provide a $30 million loan to help Vietnam set up a fund to boost development of public-private partnership (PPP) projects, said ADB Country Director for Vietnam Eric...
The Support Association for Disadvantaged Women and Children in Danang and district health centers provided free heart defect screening for more than 20,000 disadvantaged children in 2015. The Aassociation raised funds of roughly $150,000 to cover...
Thousands of households in An Khe town of Gia Lai province live on the water from Ba River but much of it is used by the An Khe hydropower plant. The analysis of the water sample taken from Ba River showed that the quality of the water was not good...
The El Nino phenomenon in 2016 will cause freshwater shortage in HCM City and other southern areas, the National Hydro-Meteorological Service has said. The phenomenon in the 2015-2016 period will be the longest one in the last 60 years, and will...
More than 220 people died or went missing, while damage totaled $660 million a year due to unseasonal rains, landslides, erosion, whirlwinds and lightning between 2011 and 2015. The information was revealed at a meeting of the central steering...
The Vietnamese Prime Minister has approved an adjustment in the lending program for students which will raise the credit line from VND150,000 per month per student to VND1,250,000 per month per student. This is an effort by the government to help...
Grassroots chapters of the Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin (VAVA) should engage in more people-to-people diplomatic activities so as to enhance support to the victims and their fight for justice. VAVA Chairman Nguyen Van...
HCM city has been providing local farmers with loans to increase their production as part of the national target program on new rural development. Thousands of farming households have escaped poverty thanks to the city’s fund to support farmers. The...
The Central Highlands province of Dak Lak has employed various measures to improve the quality of Ede ethnic language teaching in schools. Since 2011, the province has held regular training courses for teachers of the Ede language who now lecture in...
