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Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has released a decision approving waterway infrastructure policies expected to boost the sector's growth.

The French Development Agency (AFD) aided over 20 million EUR from 2008 to September 2015 to help northern Lao Cai province improve infrastructure and protect environment.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has urged localities in the Mekong Delta to strengthen measures to overcome difficulties facing the region’s education development.

The rate of urbanisation in Vietnam has increased from 16 percent annually in the 1990s to 35.5 percent now, and is projected to rise to 45 percent in 2020.

A Philippine corporation has secured its entry into Vietnam’s infrastructure business with the completion of its 4.1-billion-Philippine-Peso (87.5 million USD) investment in a Vietnamese company.

The Mekong city of Can Tho is striving to mobilise 280-300 trillion VND (12.45-13.34 billion USD) from 2016-2020 to invest in its socio-economic infrastructure.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is willing to provide long-term and low-interest-rate loans for Vietnam’s major socio-economic infrastructure projects.

A convergence platform for smart city traffic will top the agenda at a seminar on "Vietnam Information and Communication Technologies Outlook" to be held in Ho Chi Minh City this week.

Japan’s official development assistance (ODA), which mainly went to large-scale infrastructure projects, has stimulated Vietnam’s socio-economic development in a sustainable manner.

Japanese-invested projects have proved effective and significantly contributed to economic development in the southern province of Binh Duong.

The central province of Phu Yen has invested more than 4.17 trillion VND (189.5 million USD) in developing local mountainous and ethnic minority areas over the past five years.

Some 70 domestic projects and 22 foreign projects worth nearly 19.6 trillion VND (872.2 million USD) have landed in six industrial parks in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue.

Demand for transport infrastructure is increasing, so the Ministry of Transport must review transport system planning and seek private investment for transport projects.

Indonesia will be able to weather the current economic storm as the country has hands-on experience of handling economic turbulence in the past.

The June-August youth volunteer summer campaign launched by the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union has built 1,071 km of new roads in rural areas.

Central Highlands provinces have poured over 17 trillion VND (about 770 million USD) into transport infrastructure in the last five years, according to the Central Highlands Steering Committee.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo said his country is committed to participating in infrastructure development in Timor-Leste.

World Bank (WB)-funded projects in Ho Chi Minh City have helped fuel socio-economic development, upgrade traffic facilities, improve the environment and supply water to city dwellers.

The door to investments is always open for private businesses who want to engage in public-private-partnership (PPP) infrastructure projects.

Indonesia will change its lifestyle paradigm of consumption to empower productive sectors to boost its economy, President Joko Widodo remarked at the annual People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR).