Authorities in Vietnam’s central province of Thua Thien-Hue have received $5.55 million from the government of Japan’s official development assistance (ODA) to continue the $123-million project on protective forest protection in the central region...
The government of Vietnam has sought an approval from Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang for a $292-million World Bank (WB) loan for a project on upgrading urban areas in the Mekong Delta region. The Mekong Delta Region – Urban Upgrading Project (...
The Russian government is to allocate a $10 billion loan to Vietnam in the next few years, President Vladimir Putin recently told reporters following a meeting with Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang. “The loan amounts to $10 billion,” Mr. Putin...
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) have granted $1.6 million for a gender equality project in Vietnam. The two organizations and Vietnam’s National...
A delegation of the Engineer Command, a member of Permanent office of Steering Committee 504, the Command of Steering Committee on the National Mine Action Program in 2010-2025 period, examined unexploded ordnance demining work in Ha Tinh Province....
The military bomb squad removes a 400-kilogram bomb in Quang Binh Province in January, 2012. The military command of the northern province of Quang Binh said Wednesday that a 700-lb (368-kilogram) wartime bomb had been found at a local road...
Over nearly 40 years since Vietnam’s reunification in 1975, more than 140,000 people have been killed or injured by explosive remnants of war (ERW). Project Renew, a partnership between the Quang Tri provincial administration and international...
Loans totaling VND42.6 billion ($2.02 million) were given to 3,505 poor households in Ba Ria – Vung Tau Province in the first six months of this year. The southern province's Social Policy Bank in the same period offered loans totaling VND12 billion...
A group of young people in Hanoi has opened a restaurant in front of the National Hospital of Pediatrics to offer lunch to child patients and relatives every Saturday at a low price of VND5,000 per dish. The lunch service is initiated by Trung, a...
Like most people, the Lo Lo ethnic minority regards marriage as an extremely important event in an individual’s life. According to Lo Lo customs, the groom’s family must select four matchmakers – two men and two women - to officiate at the marriage...
