Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh described Japan as a leading important economic partner of Vietnam during a reception in Hanoi on September 14 for Governor of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) Hayashi Nobumitsu.
Investment in infrastructure for solid waste treatment is mainly taken from the state budget with 75 percent and ODA loans whereas just a few private companies poured money into this field, said the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE).
Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Minh Hang on July 15 received Giuseppe Cerasoli, Deputy General Director of the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS).
Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh on April 8 signed the Prime Minister’s dispatch requesting the acceleration of disbursement of foreign official development assistance (ODA) and preferential loans.
Vietnam has made great efforts and progress in socio-economic development over the past decades, WB Regional Vice President for East Asia and Pacific Manuela V. Ferro said at a meeting with National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue in Hanoi on March 22.
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong on September 29 sent a message of congratulations to Kishida Fumio on his election as President of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) of Japan.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc welcomed the President of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Kitaoka Shinichi at the Government Office on December 11.
According to the Ministry of Finance, by August 30, 2019, disbursement of official development aid (ODA) and foreign concessional loans was merely at VND6.48 trillion, accounting for 10.7 percent of the target of VND60 trillion, set by the National Assembly of Vietnam (NA).
The People’s Committee of Hanoi has proposed the municipal People’s Council add the urban railway project No 3 to the list of projects funded by official development assistance (ODA) and preferential loans from foreign donors.
The Ho Chi Minh City – Moc Bai expressway will be built under the PPP (Public-Private Partnership) format with estimated cost of VND10,456 billion ($450.7) million, as per a the project management board’s proposal to the Ministry of Transport.
