General News

  • About 19,000 Khmer homes in southern Tra Vinh Province will have access to electricity this month under the first phase of a project backed by the Asian Development Bank.The project, worth VND228 billion ($11 million), started in July, 2011, aims to...
    Tuesday, 13th November, 2012
  • A delegation of 70 cadres, doctors and nurses from Hospital 103, under the Army Medical Academy, led by Colonel Tran Viet Tien, Deputy Director of the hospital, started a four-day program to provide free health check-ups with any necessary medicine...
    Tuesday, 13th November, 2012
  • Visitors to Ta Phin Commune in the the northern province of Lao Cai's Sa Pa Town can now enjoy medicinal baths, a practice of the Red Dao ethnic minority.Traditionally, on the last day of the year, the Dao people boil aromatic leaves collected from...
    Tuesday, 13th November, 2012
  • The Institute for Studies of Society, Economy and Environment (ISEE) is holding an exhibition of photographs taken by ethnic minority groups from all across the country in Lam Son Park in District 1 of Ho Chi Minh City.The exhibition will open at...
    Tuesday, 13th November, 2012
  • - Seventeen Vietnamese students who excelled in their studies n France were awarded the Odon Vallet scholarships, worth EUR6,000 each, in Gifsur Yvette on Nov 10. Pantheon-Sorbonne University student Thinh Thanh Phuoc, a first time Vallet...
    Tuesday, 13th November, 2012
  • Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City expects that the European Union (EU) will continue providing the city with official development assistance (ODA) in coming years, Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Le Hoang Quan said. Mr...
    Tuesday, 13th November, 2012
  • The Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has pledged to provide $3.5 million in grant for Vietnam to set up a multi-purpose land data management system in two years of 2013-2014.The funding was mentioned in the agreement signed between...
    Tuesday, 13th November, 2012
  • The Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) and the Union of British Columbia Municipalities (UBCM) will help Vietnam build strategies for economic development in five localities, the Phap luat Tp. HCM newspaper reported. Two Canadian agencies...
    Tuesday, 13th November, 2012
  • Vietnam’s central city of Danang is seeking capital from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to develop the East-West Economic Corridor 2 project (EWEC 2) to boost economic growth, Chairman Van Huu Chien said.Danang wants to have the funds to develop...
    Tuesday, 13th November, 2012
  • Denmark will grant $11 million to help Vietnam boost the efficient use of energy, which is poor in the Southeast Asian country due to loose management, the Thoi Bao Ngan Hang newspaper reported on Nov 9. Deal for the fund will be signed by officials...
    Tuesday, 13th November, 2012