General News

  • Japan could help Vietnam finally get rid of traces of chemical warfare left in the soil since the Vietnam War. After Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant ruptured in March 2011, Japanese civil engineering company Shimizu trialed its water...
    Monday, 23rd November, 2015
  • The PM has issued multi-dimensional poverty lines from 2016-2020, with key criteria categorizing poor households, near- poor households, and households with average living-standards. Accordingly, the multi-dimensional poverty index consists of...
    Monday, 23rd November, 2015
  • Asian Development Bank, a regional development with Japan holding the lion’s share, has approved a $100 million loan to improve a road connecting Eindu and Kawkareik in Myanmar and another road in the East-West corridor of the Greater Mekong Sub-...
    Monday, 23rd November, 2015
  • As many as 493 foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are working in Vietnam, state media reported Tuesday, citing the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) at a meeting on Nov 16. The number of foreign NGOs has doubled in the past decade. They have...
    Monday, 23rd November, 2015
  • President of the Vietnamese Fatherland Front Nguyen Thien Nhan (VFF) has extended Vietnamese people’s sincere gratitude to foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs) for their contributions to the country’s development. He said at a ceremony held...
    Monday, 23rd November, 2015
  • European Union (EU) Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development Neven Mimica has signed an aid package worth EUR8.4 million for the Health Professional Education and Training Project (HPET) in Vietnam through a trust fund managed by...
    Monday, 23rd November, 2015
  • Vietnam has recognized contributions of foreign NGOs in Vietnam over the past years. Foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have contributed $300 million annually over the past five years, the government’s website reported. “This is a huge...
    Monday, 23rd November, 2015
  • The construction of the Danang-Quang Ngai Expressway, funded by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the World Bank (WB), in Vietnam is being hampered by capital shortage for site clearance and issues on compensation. Vietnam lacks VND1...
    Monday, 23rd November, 2015
  • The U.S. government will provide an assistance of $20.5 million for Vietnam in the fiscal year of 2016 to help the Southeast Asian nation enhance its maritime capacity to protect its sovereignty in the East Sea amid China’s increasing aggressiveness...
    Monday, 23rd November, 2015
  • Vietnam’s central coastal province of Khanh Hoa has recorded nearly 5,500 dengue fever cases in the year to date, up over 5-fold from the whole year of 2014, according to the local health department in a meeting on Nov. 19 with the provincial People...
    Monday, 23rd November, 2015