The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has agreed to lend a total of $447 million for two transport projects in Vietnam under two agreements signed in Hanoi on Dec 24. The two agreements were signed by Vietnamese Deputy of Finance Truong...
Many hospitals in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi will install cameras to monitor the performance of health workers in emergency aid and health check-up areas, as part of efforts to improve medical service quality. The move came after a number of...
Vietnam’s health insurance fund is likely to face a VND9.8 trillion ($464.5 million) overspending next year due to higher healthcare fees, said Le Van Phuc from the Vietnam Social Insurance Agency. Mr. Phuc released the figure at a meeting in Ho Chi...
Thousands of households in the capital lack water due to poorly constructed pipelines. The underground pipeline supplying water from the Da River in Hoa Binh Province to Hanoi broke four times in the past two years, forcing about 70,000 households...
Vietnam and the World Bank’s Carbon Partnership Facility (CPF) on Dec 20 signed the first emission reductions purchase agreement for renewable energy development. Under the pact, the CPF will purchase carbon credits generated by the WB-funded...
Vietnam has lost an estimated VND30 trillion ($1.42 billion) to natural disasters this year, doubling the figure of 2012, the government’s General Statistics Office (GSO) said in its report. During the year, 15 fierce storms hitting Vietnam left 313...
Chief Representative of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Vietnam Lotta Sylwander has hailed Vietnam for its successful universalisation of primary education. However, the country’s primary school completion rate is 92%, not quite all yet. The...
A conference was held in Hanoi on December 17 to review the implementation of a project to rehabilitate people affected by Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin in Vietnam. Speaking at the conference, jointly held by the Health Ministry and the Hanoi School of...
Vietnam and the U.S. on Dec 16 signed the first Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation to overcome the consequences of wartime bomb, mine and unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Vietnam. The pact was inked by Deputy Minister of Labor, War...
The Irish government has pledged to fund nearly EUR13.3 million for a poverty reduction program (Program 135) in Vietnam in the 2013-2015 period under an aid agreement recently signed in Hanoi. The funding will benefit ethnic minorities in the four...
