Norway will help Vietnam develop strategies for oil spills management at sea in the future, Norwegian Ambassador Torstein Risa said at an international conference held in Hanoi on Sept 19. Norway will transfer advanced environmental surveying...
Turbine 2 of the 660-MW O Mon 1 gas-fueled power plant which is funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will be built on Sept 21 in Vietnam’s southern city of Can Tho, the Tien Phong newspaper reported. Following the completion...
Representatives from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) organized a conference on Sept 19 to introduce the Public Use Planning (PUP) kit to the Management Board of Dong Van Plateau Global Geopark. The PUP...
The Lung Lo 3 Co.Ltd., under the Lung Lo Construction Corporation of the Defence Ministry, has defused a great number of UXOs on thousands of hectares of soil and seabed, paving the way for building key national structures, overcoming the aftermath...
The Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade of Vietnam (Vietinbank) on September 9th officially handed over to Ha Tinh province several charitable projects, including communal house and rural road projects in Duc Dong commune in Duc Tho...
Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi has helped build and upgrade nearly 30,000 houses for the poor over the past 12 years, according to the municipal Fatherland Front Committee. Local authorities have provided the needy people with seedlings, soft loans...
Authorities in Ho Chi Minh, the most populous of Vietnam, will allocate VND50 billion-VND70 billion ($2.38 million-$3.33 million) per year from its budget to the municipal Poverty Reduction Fund to provide business loans to poor households. This is...
For a long time, the Mong people in Dong Van Karst Plateau in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang have preserved a technique of casting a special kind of plough that is suitable for rocky soils. With its high geological value, the plateau...
Law makers said yesterday that more land and financial sources were needed to handle a shortage of building and production land in ethnic regions. They were speaking at the 11th session of the National Assembly's Standing Committee, and they shared...
The Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) provinces have provided free housing to 18,695 ethnic-minority households with a total population of 80,000, according to the region's Steering Committee. The Central Highlands provinces have also invested more...
