January 21, 2012
The Asia Development Bank (ADB) on Tuesday signed a US$24.8 million support agreement to foster Vietnam’s "inclusive growth" and thus aid further poverty reduction in the country, the bank said in a press release. Through the support agreement, ADB will provide parallel financing to the Poverty Reduction Support Credit framework supported by a number of development [...]
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December 14, 2011
An unexploded bomb unearthed in the garden of a resident’s house in the north-central province of Quang Tri, which has recorded the highest number of deaths and injuries caused by unexploded bombs and landmines The Americans lost 58,000 lives in the Vietnam War. Vietnamese have lost 42,000 lives to the war after it ended [...]
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December 2, 2011
A debate session at the unicameral Vietnamese National Assembly. International donors at a Tuesday conference asked the Vietnamese government to enhance efforts to fight corruption, which is getting more severe in the public’s eyes.  A report by Vietnam’s Corruption Prevention Steering Committee at the Hanoi conference said that “corruption has been contained in several fields [...]
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November 12, 2011
Visitors in a condom booth at an event on the theme of HIV/AIDS fight in Hanoi. The US Agency for International Development (USAID) last week announced it would fund two five-year programs that will assist the Vietnamese government and local partners to implement the national HIV/AIDS strategy through 2016. One program, worth $45 million, funded [...]
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October 15, 2011
German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks at the Vietnam-Germany Economic Forum in Ho Chi Minh City on October 12 German Chancellor Angela Merkel says Vietnam’s growing economy offers many opportunities for German investors, especially in infrastructure, hi-tech and education sectors. She made the statement at the Vietnam-Germany Economic Forum in Ho Chi Minh City on October [...]
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August 23, 2011
Investing in GMOs is the worst decision Vietnam could make at this time, putting its food sovereignty at risk, independent scientists say A Thai organic farmer pretends to be dead after eating GM corn during a protest against the introduction of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to Thailand outside the Government House in Bangkok in [...]
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August 9, 2011
50 years after the US began spraying Agent Orange over Vietnam and 36 years after the end of the war, victims suffer as realpolitik considerations offer faint glimmers of hope Teacher Nguyen Ngoc Phuong (C), 31, an Agent Orange victim, walks among other victims during a lesson at a hospice in Vietnam’s Da Nang [...]
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June 4, 2011
Damming the Mekong would lead to loss of fisheries, reduced agricultural productivity and erosion of river channels and coastline of the Mekong Delta Visitors look at the shipping locks of the Three Gorges Dam near Yichang, Hubei Province, China. China will move at least four million people in the next decade to protect the [...]
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May 31, 2011
Ly Ngoc Kinh, senior consultant and former head of the Vietnamese government's anti tobacco program. A Vietnamese health official was recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) for his efforts to curb tobacco use in Vietnam. Ly Ngoc Kinh, senior consultant and former head of the Vietnamese government’s anti tobacco program, was among 32 international [...]
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January 28, 2011
The experiences and successes of Vietnam’s Payments for Forest Environmental Services (PFES) scheme, which has generated significant resources to support forest protection and local livelihoods, were shared at a workshop in Da Lat last Friday. The Asia Regional Biodiversity Conservation Program (ARBCP), a project of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), helped Vietnamese [...]
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