The northern mountainous province of Yen Bai has received and implemented 21 programmes and projects funded by the World Bank (WB) with total investment of VND4.67 trillion (US$199.65 million) since 2000, according to a local official.

An EU and French-funded project was launched on May 27 to improve the climate resilience of urban infrastructure in four northern central provinces of Vietnam.

Foreign investment poured into real estate hit almost US$2.7 billion in the first quarter of this year, outpacing the figure of the entire 2021, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

Hanoi’s population, as of July 2021, reached over 8 million, increasing by almost 200,000 people per year on average.

The EU and the French Development Agency (AFD) signed several agreements on December 1 to fund a project on improving urban infrastructure to mitigate climate change impact in four coastal provinces in north central Vietnam.