The World Bank Board of Directors on July 31 approved a project worth US$129.6 million to strengthen flood resilience and improve sanitation, transport, and public space infrastructure in Nghe An province's Vinh city - a political, economic, and cultural centre of the north-central coastal region.

VOV.VN - Following the successful cooperation over the past 15 years in improving the health and hygiene conditions for the people, Unilever Vietnam (ULV) and the Ministry of Health (MoH) have just signed a strategic cooperation program “For a healthy and sustainable Vietnam” until 2028.

Bach Mai Hospital in collaboration with Medical Excellence Japan (MEJ) and Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) on June 27 organised the 2nd Vietnam- Japan conference on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (NCDs).

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh outlined main tasks to improve the material and spiritual life of labourers at a meeting on coordination between the Government and the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) in Hanoi on February 1.

VOV.VN - Local goods have continued to make a greater presence within the Thai market thanks to trade promotion connectivity, improved quality and design, as well as catching up with market trends, according to industry insiders.

The Government has focused on the implementation of law-making and institutional improvement throughout 2022, said Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh at the government’s last monthly law-making session this year in Hanoi on December 26.

VOV.VN - A seminar on sharing experience in buying and renovating houses for Vietnamese nationals living in Japan was held in October 23, in Tokyo, with the participation of more than 100 Vietnamese people residing, studying, and working in the East Asian nation.

VOV.VN - Vietnam National University in Hanoi has become the first Vietnamese educational institution to receive the Recognition of Improvement given by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a British firm specialising in overseas education.

VOV.VN - The World Bank and the State Bank of Vietnam have signed an agreement that will allow a US$2.5 million grant from the Japan Social Development Fund to finance a project that will strengthen the delivery of legal aid services to vulnerable groups in the northern part of Vietnam.

Vietnam has climbed four places on World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2022 in the past year, from 87th to 83rd place out of 146 countries, with a score of 0.705/1.