Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has approved the extension of the deadline for the Technical Assistance Project for Business Registration Reform in Vietnam to Dec 31, 2013. The project, sponsored by the United Nations Industrial Development...
The Management Authority for Urban Railways (MAUR) in Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City has proposed the municipal People’s Committee seek the government approval to borrow from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for the metro route...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide loans worth $111.88 million to help the country enhance low carbon agriculture development, and strengthen the local government’s capacity to set up and implement ADB-financed projects. Of the amount, $...
Removing the unexploded ordnances (UXOs) left over from Vietnamese wars fought in previous decades should be a national priority, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said at a meeting in Hanoi Feb 26. The PM said the government has already drawn up many...
A collection of photographs capturing meetings between trans-Vietnam cyclists and Vietnamese Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin victims taken by Lee Jong-hun are on display at an exhibition that opened in the Republic of Korea on March 2. The exhibition is...
The 13th Saigon Cyclo Challenge, an annual event that raises funds to provide educational opportunities for disadvantaged children, will be held on March 10 at the Crescent area in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 7. The event will feature a cyclo race,...
Hundreds of young doctors will be working in remote, mountainous, island and border areas, focusing especially in the country’s 62 poor districts. This is a pilot project announced yesterday by health minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien. She said: “The...
According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the pilot program of agricultural insurance has been deployed in 20 provinces and cities, with more than 106,760 households registering for the insurance policy, among them 88% are poor...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has decided to offer households living near the poverty line with preferential loans to help improve their living conditions and ensure social security. Under the decision, near-poor people will be able to...
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and Ireland have engaged in a project to assist Vietnam in sustainable poverty reduction in the 2012-2016 period. The project aims to support the implementation of Vietnam’s programs on sustainable...
