The focus of the financial support is infrastructure, manpower, and post-pandemic economic recovery.

The loans enable Vietnam to boost its recovery strategies adopted by the National Assembly in early 2022.

Infrastructure projects help smooth economic connectivity among parts of Vietnam and between the country and other ASEAN nations.

The focus of the financial support is infrastructure, manpower, and post-pandemic economic recovery.

Hanoi and JICA are willing to fix problems with local ODA projects.

Completion of the Metro No. 1 project is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2023, after 12 years of construction.

Inflows from emerging countries might fail to meet environmental protection requirements.

Japan`s funding should be suitable with Vietnam`s role in promoting climate change resilience, universal health coverage (UHC), and sustainable development goals (SDGs).

This is part of JICA`s alternative financing tools by calling for private investment.

Vietnam is making efforts to tighten control over Chinese goods seeking to be designated Vietnamese-made items.

The investment from Japan in the Vietnamese infrastructure is forecast to surge in the coming time, according to a JBIC official.

“This is responsibility of the Hanoi authority and myself included”, Hanoi Mayor Nguyen Duc Chung said in response to voters` questions over the long delay of metro line projects in the city.

The Belgian Government’s official development assistance (ODA) will help the central province of Ninh Thuan to enhance capacity in the management and operation of its irrigational system as part of efforts to respond to climate change under a project launched on March 8.

The Prime Minister has just asked the city authorities to submit a report to the Ministry of Transport (MoT) on adjusting investment on its two key metro line projects.

The Ministry of Transport (MoT) and the Australian Government inked on February, 9 to launch Aus4Transport, a new US$24-million program to support transport projects in Vietnam.

France would keep funding projects of sectors that see high demand in Vietnam, said in Vietnam-France high-level economic dialogue on January 24.

Payment and site clearance delay are major barriers to official development assistance (ODA)-funded projects in Vietnam, chief representative of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in Vietnam Fujita Yasuo told at the yesterday`s press conference in Hanoi.

Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung has visited South Korea to attend a celebration of the Korea Economic Development Cooperation Fund (EDCF)’s 30th founding anniversary.

On National Day September 2nd, a 5.44km sea bridge, part of Tan Vu-Lach Huyen Highway in the northern port city of Hai Phong, was put into operation, becoming the longest sea bridge in Vietnam and one of the longest of its kind in Southeast Asia.

Vietnam welcomes technical support from the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) via official development assistance and preferential loans.