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Acecook Vietnam plans to offer 90 scholarships worth US$ 5,000 per one (totaling over VND 1billion) to students with great learning achievements from universities in Hanoi, Danang, HCMC and Can Tho. This year’s program attracts 1.770 students from 9 universities cross over the country. On August 28 and 31, Acecook Vietnam will give scholarships to students in Hanoi and Danang. PHUONG CHINH-Translated by K.Lien … [Read more...] about 90 scholarships offered to students in Hanoi, HCMC, Danang & Can Tho

Mr. Vu No Denh, Chairman of Ky Son district’s Tay Son commune People’s Committee said aslo local authority is searching for Va A Kia, aged 10, who was missing on August 17 as Kia and his monther were on the way home and hit by landslide. His mother was injured while Kia was missing. Chairman of Chien Luu commune said the number of missing people caused by floods in the commune was reported to be 2. Landslides and the flooding occurred after heavy rains hit the northern mountainous communes of Nghe An such as Ky Son, Quy Chau and Quy Hop over the last days. DUY CUONG-Translated by V.Ha … [Read more...] about Nghe An: five dead and missing in heavy rains, flooding

The Ministry has proposed the amount for dredging the 29.68km-long passage and quay side passage to a depth of 15.5 meters and 600 meters respectively to allow access to 160,000 DWT (14,000 TEUs ) vessels. After dredging and improving navigational passages to make it easier for vessels of 200,000 DWT to transport to and from Cai Mep-Thi Vai, it is expected to become an international terminal. According to the Ministry, more than 8,000 TEU ships have to transfer goods to other smaller ones before entering the passage which made this place an unattractive transit point.By BICH QUYEN – Translated by UYEN PHUONG … [Read more...] about MoT proposes $50 million for Cai Mep – Thi Vai port upgrade

70 households at the two communes yesterday were moved out of the dangerous areas to safer places, said Mr. Muoi. Besides, local authority was repairing the national road 40B that has been damaged by landslides due to heavy rains. Today, local people and vehicles can travel along the road. Mr. Muoi said heavy rains which lasted from August 12 to 16 blocked several roads, of which,  the national road 40B connects between Nam Tra My district, Quang Nam province and Tu Mo Rong district, Kon Tum province. Dozens of hectares of rice were damaged due to heavy rains.HUU PHUC –Translated by V.Ha ​ … [Read more...] about Kontum: 70 households moved to safer places

Lately, the central province of Ninh Thuan and other provinces in the central and Mekong delta have implemented wind energy projects at large scale. Specifically, People’s Committee in Tra Vinh approved three wind power plants Hiep Thanh with total investment of nearly VND3,370 billion ($144.6 million). They are expected to operate in 2020. Before, the province had issued operating certificates to three wind energy projects with total capacity of 192MW located in Truong Long Hoa and Dong Hai Communes. One of the country’s four largest wind energy projects was operated in the Mekong delta province of Bac Lieu while Phu Cuong Corporation’s 800 MW wind energy with estimated investment of VND2 billion has been operated . Experts say the Southeast Asian country has great advantages to make wind power with the total potential capacity of 500,000 MW, which is 6 times higher than the forecast total electricity capacity to be reached by 2020. However, to lure more investors … [Read more...] about Vietnam appeals wind energy projects