An Italian man has spent around 6 years with passion visiting many villages in the Central Highlands to study Gongs, a typical musical instrument used in the festivals of ethnic people in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, for his PhD thesis.32-year-...
- Eighty outstanding students from Ho Chi Minh City have been granted the Japan-Vietnam Human Resource Development Scholarship for the 2012-2013 academic year. At the scholarship award ceremony held in the city yesterday, the Japanese Business...
The Vietnamese government needs to take bold measures to restore business confidence, which saw a dramatic decline this year, Dr. Edmund Malesky, an advisor to the U.S. Agency for International Development said. Mr. Malesky, a lead researcher of the...
The Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH) and the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in which KITECH will help the Vietnamese city develop a technological incubator in the Tra Noc 2 Industrial...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved the portfolio of two labor projects funded by the International Labor Organization (ILO) with a total non-refundable aid of over $4.6 million, the government said on its website.The first...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Transport has announced a plan to scale up the Ho Chi Minh City-Long Thanh-Dau Giay Expressway, under which the total cost of the project will rise by VND4.738 trillion to VND20.63 trillion ($987.08 million).Under the adjusted...
The Danish government will provide $57 million in official development assistance (ODA) for Vietnam in 2013, Danish Ambassador John Nielsen said at a press briefing to announce Denmark’s prioritized activities in Vietnam next year.The continued...
International donors pledged to provide Vietnam with nearly $6.5 billion in official development assistance (ODA) for 2013, lower than the $7.38 billion committed for 2012.The commitment was made at the Consultative Group (CG) Meeting in the capital...
Construction of an $4.65 million educational welfare complex was started on December 12 in Tam Ky city, the central province of Quang Nam.The complex funded by the Korean Lotus Village organization from the Republic of Korea (RoK), will comprise...
An exhibition to raise funds for dioxin victims featuring photos depicting Vietnam and its people taken by Singaporean photographer Cecilia Yeoh is being held in Hanoi.Titled “Duyen Dang Vietnam” (Charming Vietnam), the event is part of activities...
