An international seminar was held in Hanoi on December 3 to share experience in managing, monitoring and evaluating state budget expenditure in response to climate change. Co-hosted by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the France...
The Vietnamese government has received more than $300 million from the international donors to implement projects on climate change adaptation in 2013, said an official from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. Truong Duc Tri, deputy...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) disbursed an estimated VND63 billion ($3 million) worth of state funding for its projects in November, an increase of 1.6% from October, the government’s General Statistics Office (GSO) said....
Vietnamese students ranked 17th out of 65 participating countries and territories in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) 2012 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) survey. The high placement reflects the...
Thousands of Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin victims in Quynh Phu district, the northern province of Thai Binh, have seen their health improve and been able to integrate into the community thanks to a project jointly launched by the Health Ministry and the...
Thirty-three international NGOs are helping Vietnam overcome its war consequences. Participants in the third international conference on cooperation between Vietnam and international Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Hanoi on November 28-29,...
The Government spent more than VND700 trillion ($36 billion) on nationwide poverty reduction efforts in the 2005 – 2012 period, an average of VND90 trillion ($4.2 billion) per year, Nhan Dan newspaper has reported. The figure was released at a...
The Japanese government has pledged to grant $580,000 to five projects on improving infrastructure in several poor provinces of Vietnam under a signed agreement on Nov 27. The projects focus on improving a water supply system in the central province...
The Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) in coordination with the Central Highlands Steering Committee (CHSC) have held a conference reviewing their joint program on reaching out to ethnic minority and religious women in the Central Highlands. The November...
International donors will continue to help Vietnam achieve its development targets in the next years, said Country Director of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Tomoyuki Kimuara at the 7th Aid Effectiveness Forum in Hanoi on Nov 26. Although Vietnam...
