The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho is looking to expand comprehensive cooperation with Canada, emphasising the importance of international assistance alongside its own resources and expressing hopes for further joint programmes and projects in trade and economic development.

Vietnam’s public investment disbursement reached VND409.17 trillion (US$15.49 billion) by August 31, equal to 39.9% of the annual plan and 46.3% of the Prime Minister’s target, the Ministry of Finance (MoF) reported.

The Mekong Delta province of Long An is committed to creating favourable conditions, improving the investment environment, simplifying administrative procedures, and expanding incentive policies to attract industrial, commercial, and high-tech projects, said Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Van Ut.

The Da Nang – US cooperation promotion working group was launched in the Vietnamese central city on June 25.

The southern province of Ba Ria - Vung Tau signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Sanjo city of Japan’s Niigata prefecture on establishing friendship and cooperative relations for the 2024 – 2026 period, at a conference held in the Vietnamese locality on April 26.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment chaired a meeting on March 9 to discuss solutions to resolve difficulties and obstacles so as to accelerate the implementation of projects using loans from the World Bank (WB) in the Mekong Delta region, Ho Chi Minh City, and the southern province of Binh Duong.

VOV.VN - Vietnam expects the Asian Development bank (ADB) will continue to coordinate and soon implement projects on the list of official ODA funding and other foreign preferential loans for the Mekong Delta region.

The Vietnamese Government always considers the World Bank (WB) a close friend and a significant development partner, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh told WB Country Director in Vietnam Carolyn Turk during a reception in Hanoi on October 27.

VOV.VN - The Mekong Delta will receive more than US$2.5 billion in official development assistance (ODA) loans to implement 16 sustainable development projects in response to climate change, said Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on April 24 hosted a reception for Director of the Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG) Christian Hofer, who is in Hanoi to attend the 4th global conference of the One Planet Network's Sustainable Food Systems Programme (SFS Programme) from April 24 to 27.