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The HCMC government is seeking official development assistance for the second phase of the environmental hygiene project, the green traffic development project, and the sustainable urban development project for the Metro Line No. 2.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam needs a better monitoring and reporting system of water pollution in rural and urban areas,

VietNamNet Bridge – The Government has issued Decree 38/2013/ND-CP which stipulates nine priority fields for using official development assistance and preferential loans.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The launch of the Vietnam Natural Resources, Environment and Disaster Monitoring Small Satellite (VNREDSat-1) will be delayed until late April.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Government has outlined urgent solutions to accelerate economic recovery, according to its newly-issued Resolution.

VietNamNet Bridge - My Thuan Bridge is considered the project that marks the beginning of Australia’s grant of official development assistance at the government level to Vietnam in the early 1990s.

 VietNamNet Bridge – As of late February, Vietnam had attracted 14,550 valid FDI projects with a total capitalization of US$211 billion, of which almost US$100 billion was already disbursed.

The delay in the site clearance work has become so commonly seen in Vietnam. However, things may change a lot after a Japanese contractor asked for additional expenses to compensate the losses it incurred due to the delay in the site clearance.

Over 4,200 enterprises had dissolved or suspended their operations in the year to January 20, up nearly 7% against the preceding month and 11.3% year-on-year,

VietNamNet Bridge – This Committee is responsible for researching, proposing to the Prime Minister the policy to attract, effectively manage and use ODA capital and preferential loans of international donors.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Despite global and domestic challenges, Viet Nam has still gained significant external economic achievements in 2012, especially in terms of FDI, ODA, export, import and international arrivals.

 VietNamNet Bridge – International donors have pledged to provide close to 6.5 billion USD in official development assistance (ODA) to Vietnam in 2013, a decline of 1 billion USD from last year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Japanese Government has committed to grant US$2.6 billion in official development assistance (ODA) to Vietnam in 2013, nearly doubling last year’s figure (US$1.4 billion).

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung called for continual efforts to rein in inflation, maintain a stable macro-economy, safeguard social welfare and accelerate production in the remaining months of this year