The northern province of Bac Ninh raked in more than 1.3 billion USD in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first two months of this year, making it the country’s largest FDI recipient during the period, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment’s Foreign Investment Agency.
The World Bank (WB) Group and the Australian Government have agreed to extend their strategic partnership in Vietnam with a commitment of a further 5 million AUD to support Vietnam’s economic recovery and protect the most vulnerable from the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Ministry of Education and Training will prioritise funding for poor localities to upgrade ethnic boarding school infrastructure between 2016 and 2020, Deputy Minister Nguyen Thi Nghia has said.
PM Nguyen Tan Dung has agreed to give an additional 99.8 billion VND (4.4 million USD) for a survey to collect information on socio-economic situations of 53 ethnic minority groups in 2015.
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