General News

  • Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has agreed to extend the deadline for the construction of the 1,080-MW Mong Duong 1 power plant, which is funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).Accordingly, the completion date of the coal-fired...
    Monday, 25th February, 2013
  • A consortium between two South Korean firms namely Dohwa Engineering Co., Ltd and Korea Expressway Corporation has won a contract worth VND42 billion ($2 million) to carry out a part of an expressway project in central Vietnam.Under the contract,...
    Monday, 25th February, 2013
  • South Korea will fund a total of $7 million for a technical training program in supporting industries in Vietnam by 2019 under a cooperative agreement on supporting industries development recently signed in Hanoi.Accordingly, selected Vietnamese...
    Monday, 25th February, 2013
  • The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the political risk insurance arm of the World Bank (WB), expects to support transport infrastructure development in Vietnam, Vice President Michel Wormser said.Mr. Wormser made the statement...
    Monday, 25th February, 2013
  • The Vietnam Automated Cargo and Port Consolidated System and the Vietnam Customs Information System (VNACCS/VCIS), funded by Japanese government, will help facilitate trade and investment activities in Vietnam, said General Director of the General...
    Monday, 25th February, 2013
  • The Danang City’s People Committee has ratified a plan to develop Hoa Vang District through 2016 with total investment of over $1.5 million from the World Vision Organization.The plan will benefit 8 communes of Hoa Vang District, including Hoa Bac,...
    Monday, 25th February, 2013
  • Russia’s VTB Bank, the second largest bank in the European country, is willing to provide $1 billion of soft loan for the state-owned Rosatom Nuclear Energy State Corporation (Rosatom) to help the company build a nuclear power plant in Vietnam, the...
    Monday, 25th February, 2013
  • The U.S. will send its marines to assist Vietnam in cleaning up the remaining bombs and unexploded ordnance (UXO) from the last century’s two-decade war, the British Broadcasting Co. reported Thursday, not citing a specific date.Particularly, the U....
    Monday, 18th February, 2013
  • The Government is working to ensure that even disadvantaged people can celebrate the Lunar New Year pleasantly to welcome a prosperous year.Last weekend, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan presented Tet gifts to 400 policy beneficiary families...
    Monday, 18th February, 2013
  • Saigon Thuong Tin Commercial Bank (Sacombank) on Sunday teamed up with HCMC’s Relief Association for Disabled Children to spend VND4.5 billion on a fabulous day for more than 6,000 homeless people from the elderly and orphaned to disabled children...
    Monday, 18th February, 2013