The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has opened courses and seminars on policy analysis and legislative research to train and boost capacity of legislators of Vietnam’s National Assembly (NA). Over the past 18 months, the agency...
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved the negotiation results and contents of a loan agreement, a grant agreement and related documents of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) supplemented credit package for the southern coastal corridor project....
The Mobile UXO Clearance Team, under the Peace Trees Vietnam Organization, has defused 619 unexploded ordnances (UXOs), said the Quang Tri Provincial Command on March 25th. Earlier, on March 23rd, local people discovered three shells on a pine hill...
Vietnam will release a map of bomb and mine pollution this year to speed up the progress and raise efficiency of bomb and mine removal, said a representative of the Vietnam Bomb and Mine Action Center under the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social...
Vietnam will need around VND14 trillion ($700 million) for bomb and mine clearance by 2025, said Deputy Minister of Lab our, Invalids and Social Affairs Bui Hong Linh. An estimated 800,000 tons of unexploded ordinance is has been left in the country...
The labor federation of central Quang Nam province on March 28 presented over VND1.5 billion to 12 fishermen in special difficulty. The beneficiaries, residing in the three districts of Duy Xuyen, Thang Binh and Nui Thanh, have been seriously...
Nearly 2,500 poor people with vision problems in two central provinces of Quang Ngai and Binh Dinh have benefited from free medical check-ups and surgeries funded by the Ho Chi Minh City branch of Hope Charity during a campaign in March. The...
Vietnam has reported 178,800 hungry families with 737,300 starving people in the first three months of this year, down 10.8% and 10.9% on year, respectively, said the government’s General Statistics Office (GSO). Most of them are living in the...
The World Bank (WB) approved an additional grant of $6.5 million to the Coastal Resources for Sustainable Development Project (CRSD) in Vietnam on March 29. The credit comes from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) – a Trust Fund managed by the WB...
Turbine 2 of a 180-MW hydropower plant in Vietnam’s central province of Nghe An has been connected to the national grid, generating about 717 million kWh of electricity per year. Costing VND6 trillion ($287 million), the plant was built by...
