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 25, 2011
China’s Vice President Xi Jinping (L) is greeted by Vietnam’s Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan (R) and Party’s Senior Politburo member Le Hong Anh (C) upon his arrival at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi December 21. Vietnam and China agreed to comprehensively boost strategic cooperation during Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping’s three-day visit to Hanoi [...]
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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 29, 2011
United Nations Special Rapporteur Anand Grover United Nations Special Rapporteur Anand Grover arrived in Vietnam Friday on his first fact-finding trip, looking at issues relating to the fulfillment of right to health in the country. During his trip, which will last until December 5, Grover will inspect the availability, accessibility, acceptability and quality of health services, goods, facilities [...]
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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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September 9, 2011
Vietnam has to get very tough or the flood of illegal Chinese workers will continue Chinese workers at a construction site in the south-central province of Phu Yen. Thousands of illegal workers will continue taking jobs from Vietnamese workers if the Vietnamese government does not take action now, analysts say. There will be no [...]
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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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