General News

  • Vietnam’s central province of Quang Ngai has completed a JPY818 million project on upgrading seven small-scale reservoirs using a grant from the Japanese government.Of the sum, JPY698 million ($8.52 million) came from Japan and the remaining from...
    Monday, 26th November, 2012
  • Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved the negotiation result for an ozone-depleting substance phase-out project with $9.76 million funding from the World Bank (WB).The PM has authorized Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV)...
    Monday, 26th November, 2012
  • The French Development Agency (AFD) has provided EUR60 million in aid for Vietnam’s support program to respond to climate change (SP-RCC) since 2009, said the French embassy. The information was released at a signing ceremony of an AFD-funded...
    Monday, 26th November, 2012
  • The Vietnam Aerospace Association (VAA) and the Swedish Unmanned Group has signed an agreement on which Sweden will assist Vietnam to build unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).According to the agreement signed in Hanoi on Nov 20, Unmanned Group will...
    Monday, 26th November, 2012
  • New Zealand will continue to provide official development assistance (ODA) for Vietnam in the next years, Prime Minister John Key said at a meeting with his counterpart Nguyen Tan Dung on the margins of the 21st ASEAN Summit in Cambodia on Nov...
    Monday, 26th November, 2012
  • The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the International Organization (ILO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) are jointly holding a workshop in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Nam today to...
    Monday, 26th November, 2012
  • Japan will provide more official development assistance (ODA) for Vietnam to implement infrastructure projects to serve national socio-economic development, Ambassador Tanizaki Yasuaki said. Mr. Yasuaki made the statement at a meeting with National...
    Monday, 26th November, 2012
  • Jobs Program for Survivors of Domestic Violence, a plan receiving support from the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi, has been launched to assist Vietnamese victims in finding jobs in the country, where male chauvinism has existed for centuries.The embassy...
    Monday, 26th November, 2012
  • A charity gala night was held by the Vietnam Association for Children Victims of Agent Orange (AO)/Dioxin in France (VNED) and the Vietnam-Belgium Friendship Association in Brussels on November 12.The event, aiming to raise funds for AO children in...
    Monday, 19th November, 2012
  • The Vietnam Red Cross (VRC) on November 13 said that nearly VND34 billion had been collected over the past three years from the program o­n sending messages through the national humanitarian portal. The money has been spent carrying out...
    Monday, 19th November, 2012