The European Union (EU) has agreed to grant more than EUR114 million to help improve the quality of Vietnam’s health sector by 2017, said Delphine Malard, a senior official of the EU Delegation to Vietnam. Ms. Malard made the statement at the second...
The Delf Technology University of the Netherlands and Vietnam’s Irrigation University Dec 16 signed an agreement to establish the Vietnam-Netherlands Water and Environment Center (Vinwater). The center will provide scientific consultancy and boost...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment on Dec 15 kick-started a project on improving national capacity in natural resources management and environment protection. The four-year project, to be jointly conducted by the ministry’s...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is working on a draft decree to set up a fund for natural disaster prevention to ensure financial resources for localities on this issue. The ministry released the information at a conference in Ho...
Vietnam welcomes the proposal on establishing a Vietnam-Japan University in Hanoi to train workforce for the two countries’ business communities, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung. PM Dung, who wrapped up a four-day visit to Japan on Dec 15, made...
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved the international integration scheme for education and vocational training by 2020 with the aim of improving the quality of the sector, which ranks nearly bottom in the ASEAN. Under the scheme, Vietnam...
Over 700 households across four districts in the central province of Quang Tri, one plagued by unexploded ordnance (UXO) left over from the war, have benefited from a sustainable agriculture development project funded by the US’s non-governmental...
The Vietnamese Party and State have always given the top priority to sustainable and comprehensive poverty reduction in their development policies with a view to ensuring human rights and implementing Millennium Development Goals set by the United...
In 2013, the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong has seen 5,700 households escaping from poverty, including 3,800 households from ethnic minority groups. With the figure, the population living under the poverty line in the locality shrank to 4.3...
The Irish Government has pledged a funding of nearly EUR13.3 million ($18.2 million) to poverty reduction program 135 in eight Vietnamese provinces during the 2013-2015 period. Under an agreement to this effect signed in Hanoi on December 13, the...
