Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has okayed to extend the completion time to June 2015 for Song Bung 4 hydropower plant in the central province of Quang Nam. No reason was given for the extension of the 156-MW plant, which cost total...
Authorities in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi have approved to allocate additional VND9.66 trillion ($459.33 million) to a project on urban transport development, which is partly funded by the World Bank (WB). The added amount will serve the...
Vietnam has made significant improvements in combating HIV epidemic partly thanks to the support of the U.S. since 2005, a study conducted by the American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed. The study which received support from...
Japan will help Vietnam’s southern province of Binh Duong build a metro route linking it with Suoi Tien in Ho Chi Minh City, said Takumi Onuma, an official from the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Mr. Onuma made the statement...
Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) as the strategic partner will continue giving support to Vietnam Export Import Commercial JS Bank (EIB), or Eximbank, in many fields, affirmed an executive. Hiroshi Minoura, deputy president cum...
Vietnam’s Ministry Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) held on Feb 28 a conference to discuss measures to improve the evaluation of the environmental impacts of rare earth mining projects....
The Sri Lanka-Vietnam Friendship Foundation on Feb. 18 handed over gifts from the Vietnamese community in Sri Lanka to victims of Agent Orange (AO).At his meeting with the Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/dioxin (VAVA) in Hanoi, the...
The government of Germany has pledged an aid worth $1.3 million to clear wartime bombs, mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) in central Vietnam this year.This brings the total amount of grant that Germany has given for these projects in the region to...
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has signed a contract with U.S. TerraTherm, Inc. to conduct a dioxin remediation in Vietnam’s central city of Danang, the project marks Washington’s first involvement in cleaning up dioxin...
Sappers from the Phu Tho Province’s Military Command have successfully defused a 350kg bomb in Yen Mao Commune, Thanh Thuy District, Phu Tho.Previously, fisherman Nguyen Van Hung (Yen Mao Commune) found the large bomb while fishing on the Da River....
