More than 2,000 beneficiaries of the Government’s social welfare bailout package in Tho Xuan District in the central province of Thanh Hoa refused the support, claiming that the benefits should go to those in more desperate need.

The Vietnamese community abroad has actively collaborated with local authorities and people in both Vietnam and their host countries to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

After months of proposals, domestic and international businesses are expected to have an unprecedented online dialogue with the Vietnamese prime minister this week to discuss the most effective incentives to ease their difficulties

National Assembly deputies say if the government gives financial support to real estate firms and private schools, it will only be saving rich people.

Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, head of the Vietnam Permanent Mission to the UN, has appreciated the positive results of a peace agreement in Colombia and believed that this will contribute to ensuring security and safety for people in the country.

In response to the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV)’s appeal, a number of credit institutions have announced plans to support businesses affected by the novel coronavirus (nCoV) epidemic.

With Vietnam’s strategy to increase the quality of foreign investment in the digital age, German businesses are eyeing green and high-tech projects in the country. 

The IFC and the ADB pledged to provide further support for Vietnam while meeting with Politburo member and Chairman of the Party Central Committee’s Economic Commission Nguyen Van Binh in Hanoi on November 7.

 57 years have gone by after the US started to spray some 80 million litres of toxic chemicals, including Agent Orange/dioxin over nearly one quarter of the total area of South Vietnam. 

HCM City will provide great support for the public-private-partnership (PPP) model in infrastructure development, its leaders told a meeting held yesterday to discuss attraction of funding through the model.

VietNamNet Bridge – Japan’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) co-operation in Viet Nam had been successful, said President of the Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA) Shinichi Kitaoka in a press conference in Ha Noi

 VietNamNet Bridge – The World Bank has supported a project to build a medical waste treatment area with a total cost of VND120 billion (US$5.4 million) in this central province,

VietNamNet Bridge - The government decided that all the craft brick kilns throughout the country must be eliminated, but in Dong Nai province, the kilns continue to operate, polluting the environment.

 VietNamNet Bridge – State President Truong Tan Sang has requested the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to continue its counselling and support to Viet Nam in economic reform and high-quality workforce training.

 Pro-democracy activists have strongly denied Hong Kong leader CY Leung's claim that "external forces" are involved in protests in the territory.

 VietNamNet Bridge – FIFA has announced a US$800,000 grant to the Viet Nam Football Federation (VFF) to develop their youth football.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Air carriers are looking forward to receiving several preferences to be given by the government as support to help them relieve losses caused by the tensions in the East Sea.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The annual festival VietPride 2014 which supports the gay, bisexual, and transgender community (LGBT) will kick off tonight, July 18, in HCM City.

John Ashe, President of the current UN General Assembly session, has raised the international community’s concern about recent East Sea tensions and supported Vietnam’s stance towards settling the dispute by peaceful means.