General News

  • Authorities in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi have decided to build a water treatment plant using the input from the Red River to meet the local demand. Designed to have the capacity of 300,000 cubic meters of water daily, the Red River Water Plant...
    Monday, 1st December, 2014
  • The northern province Nam Dinh is participating in the Vietnam Forests and Deltas (VFD) Program which is tailored to help accelerate Vietnam’s transition to a climate change resilient, low carbon, and sustainable society. The project comprises three...
    Monday, 1st December, 2014
  • The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and international partners have agreed to restart the International Support Group on Natural Resources and Environment (ISGE) in a meeting in Hanoi. Accordingly, a larger scale program will be kicked...
    Monday, 1st December, 2014
  • The Hungarian government will double the number of its scholarships for Vietnamese students to 100 in the near future, said President Janos Ader, who is on an official visit to the Southeast Asian nation. Mr. Ader noted at the first conference of...
    Monday, 1st December, 2014
  • A total of 161 Vietnamese citizens will start their post-graduate studies in Australia from early next year under the Australian government’s scholarship program. They include 117 recipients of Australia Awards Scholarships, of whom two are the...
    Monday, 1st December, 2014
  • Over the past years, the Quang Binh provincial Association of Victims of Agent Orange (AO) has exerted great efforts in calling on support for AO victims; notably the building of the fund for the victims worth nearly VND18 billion. Since 2009, the...
    Monday, 24th November, 2014
  • The German Ministry of Foreign Affairs has funded a number of projects to help the central province of Thua Thien-Hue disarm unexploded ordnances (UXOs) left over from the war. In March 2014, the ministry pledged EUR257,911 to implement a project...
    Monday, 24th November, 2014
  • The adoption of the Rome Declaration on Nutrition and the Framework for Action will serve as a direction for the sustainable development of agriculture, food and nutrition security in Vietnam , Ambassador to Italy Nguyen Hoang Long has said. The...
    Monday, 24th November, 2014
  • The Ministry of Justice and the Government Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs will work together on legal documents and projects related to ethnic minority groups under an agreement recently signed in Hanoi. According to the plan, the two...
    Monday, 24th November, 2014
  • The Ministry of Justice and the Government Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs will work together on legal documents and projects related to ethnic minority groups under an agreement recently signed in Hanoi. According to the plan, the two...
    Monday, 24th November, 2014