Typhoon Mirinae has killed 116 people and injured 125 others as of Nov. 7. Initial total losses are estimated to reach nearly VND5,000 billion. The National Steering Board for Storm and Flood Prevention and Control has said that Mirinae has caused...
French professor Odon Vallet has presented 14 scholarships worth EUR5,000 each to outstanding Vietnamese students in France. The students are studying in the faculty of technology at big universities and the National Institute of Applied Sciences (...
The U.K. Department for International Development (DFID) has announced a financial support worth £17 million ($28.09 million) for the School Education Quality Assurance Program (SEQAP) in Vietnam. The Vietnam Ministry of Finance has signed a...
The World Bank (WB) will provide a 40-year soft loan of SDR33.6 million ($50 million) for Vietnam to implement the first phase of the Higher Education Development Policy Program (HEDPP). The WB and the State Bank of Vietnam inked an agreement on the...
Up to 70% of the foreign teachers working in 40 schools, training centers in Hanoi have not been licensed, the Vietnam News Agency said, citing an educational official. Most of the unlicensed foreign teachers work part-time and do not have any...
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has decided to allocate VND98 billion ($5.5 million) and 3,500 tons of rice more to six central and central highlands provinces seriously affected by typhoon Ketsana. Thanh Hoa province will receive VND10 billion and 1...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade is preparing a draft degree, requesting rice exporters obtain its rice export license before their trading activities. The draft stated that local enterprises have the right to export rice if they meet...
Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has decided to allocate VND225 billion ($12.6 million) from the state budget 2009 and 10,000 tons of rice to five central and central highlands provinces affected by typhoon Mirinae. The relief aid will be...
The Vietnam Association of Small and Medium-sized enterprises (VINASME) has officially kicked off a project worth EUR247,000 ($365,553) to assist its members, the Voice of Vietnam said Tuesday. The project, part of the EU-Vietnam Multilateral Trade...
Japan will fund $180 million for Vietnamese small and medium enterprises (SMEs), the State Bank of Vietnam, the country’s central bank, said on its website. The aid is part of the Japanese aid package worth JPY64.9 billion ($704 million) for...
