The Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved the portfolio of the project funded by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) to assist the building of development policies and strategy for the industrial sector....
Drought and salt intrusion has worsened and damaged a large shrimp farming area in the Mekong Delta since the beginning of this year, causing material shortage for export processing plants, state media has reported. Shrimp breeders have suffered...
Vietnam needs urgent supports of international community to cope with ongoing droughts and salinization as the situation becomes too severe that the country can deal with, said Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat. Speaking at...
A total of 11 provinces in the Mekong Delta and Central Highland regions have announced an emergency state of drought and saline intrusion, reported Nhan dan newspaper. These localities are Binh Thuan, Ninh Thuan in the central region, Tien Giang,...
Japan might need to recruit 30,000 foreign information technology (IT) engineers especially from India and Vietnam to work in the country in the next four years. Nguyen Doan Hung, chairman of the Vietnam - Japan IT Cooperation Club (VJC) made the...
Soldiers in Nghe An Province have safely removed a 250-kilogram Vietnam War bomb from a local house after it was found by some construction workers. A huge bomb found three meters underground in Nghe An Province March 6. The two-meter bomb was...
The Danang City Association for Victims of Agent Orange (DAVA) inaugurated a house for Agent Orange (AO) victims with polio in Hoa Nhon Commune in Hoa Van District on Mar 9. The house, which was built with a donation from Singaporean Harold Chan Soo...
A rehabilitation and nursery centre for Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin victims was put into operation in Hanoi’s Thach That district on March 10. President of the Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (VAVA) Nguyen Van Rinh said the centre...
The Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang will provide housing loans worth VND108 billion for nearly 3,600 disadvantaged households in the locality between now and 2020, according to the provincial People’s Committee. The program will give priority to...
Northwestern mountainous region remains the poorest part of Vietnam as more than half of households are rated “poor” and “near-poor”, far from the country’s average of 5%, state media reported, citing the Central Steering Committee for Sustainable...
