Vietnam and the World Bank’s Carbon Partnership Facility (CPF) on Dec 20 signed the first emission reductions purchase agreement for renewable energy development. Under the pact, the CPF will purchase carbon credits generated by the WB-funded...
Vietnam has lost an estimated VND30 trillion ($1.42 billion) to natural disasters this year, doubling the figure of 2012, the government’s General Statistics Office (GSO) said in its report. During the year, 15 fierce storms hitting Vietnam left 313...
Chief Representative of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Vietnam Lotta Sylwander has hailed Vietnam for its successful universalisation of primary education. However, the country’s primary school completion rate is 92%, not quite all yet. The...
A conference was held in Hanoi on December 17 to review the implementation of a project to rehabilitate people affected by Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin in Vietnam. Speaking at the conference, jointly held by the Health Ministry and the Hanoi School of...
Vietnam and the U.S. on Dec 16 signed the first Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation to overcome the consequences of wartime bomb, mine and unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Vietnam. The pact was inked by Deputy Minister of Labor, War...
The Irish government has pledged to fund nearly EUR13.3 million for a poverty reduction program (Program 135) in Vietnam in the 2013-2015 period under an aid agreement recently signed in Hanoi. The funding will benefit ethnic minorities in the four...
The Embassy of Denmark in Vietnam on Dec 16 held a meeting in Hanoi to review the implementation of a project on agriculture and rural development targeting to alleviate poverty in remote areas under the cooperation agreement between the Danish and...
Hanoi’s Vice Chairman Nguyen Van Khoi on Dec 19 urged district authorities to promptly hand over cleared site for the Nhon-Hanoi Station Railway to quicken the project, which was kicked off four years ago. The railway will stretch 12.5 kilometers to...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has built a number of measures to encourage inflows of official development assistance (ODA) into the country’s agricultural sector, state media reported. Prioritized fields for ODA will be...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Finance has spent an additional VND300 billion ($14 million) on providing the poor with free-of-charge health insurance cards this year. The funding, sourced from the state budget, will benefit the needy and ethnic...
