The Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long will cooperate with investors from the Republic of Korea (RoK) in building and upgrading its water facilities. To this effect, a memorandum of understanding (MoU) was inked between the two sides in Vinh Long...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a water supply project in the 2014-2019 period borrowing $230 million from the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The project costing a total of $254 million would focus on building a system using...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a planning on treating solid waste in Hanoi until 2030, that costs nearly VND11 trillion ($524 million), under which between 80% and 100% of solid waste in urban and rural areas will be...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training disbursed an estimated VND44 billion ($2.09 million) of state funding for its projects in April, up 7.3% from March, said the government’s General Statistics Office (GSO). In the first four months, the...
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is working closely with localities to support disabled people, including dioxin victims, in accessing new treatment and reintegrating into society. KC Choe, Director of the USAID’s Environment...
The State Bank of Vietnam and the World Bank on April 24 signed an agreement to fund a combined of $390 million for poverty reduction projects in the Southeast Asian country, the bank said. This is within the $1.5-billion amount which the bank would...
Vietnam said that it spent an estimated VND864 trillion ($41.14 billion) on fighting against poverty during 2005-2012, according to the statistics released at an online government meeting on April 23. The programs over the years have benefited 531,...
The implementation of policies and laws on poverty reduction for ethnic minority people in the 2005-2012 period was the focus of the National Assembly’s Council for Ethnic Minority Affairs and Committee for Social Affairs when they held a review...
The Maries Stopes International will contribute $15 million to provide sexual reproductive healthcare services and family-planning products and services to Vietnam. The services are expected to help create 5.5 million CYPs (Couple Years of...
The National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology will conduct a study on the 2013-2014 measles outbreak after 3,481 patients in 61 out of 63 cities and provinces in Vietnam were confirmed to have the disease, of which 125 reportedly died. The...
