Denmark funds environmental programme in Quang Nam

Quang Nam (VNA) - The Danish Government will provide 1.46 million Danish Koruna (267,000 USD) to carry our an environmental programme in the central province of Quang Nam.

Document to this effect was signed between the provincial People's Committee
and the Danish Embassy in Vietnam on Oct. 5.

The programme will help raise the local experts' capability in making plan
on sustainable development in developing local socio-economic plan.

On Oct. 4, a 15.4 million USD project to improve urban environment in the
central province of Quang Ngai was launched in Tu Nghia district.

The project is part of a 96 million USD scheme to improve urban
environment of the central region, which targets six coastal townships:
Thanh Hoa, Ha Tinh, Dong Ha, Lang Co, Quang Nam and Quang Ngai.

It aims to raise the people's awareness on hygiene, upgrade drainage
system and control floods and manage waste water and solid waste.

The project, which is partly funded by the Asia Development Bank (ADB)
and the French Development Agency (AFD), will be completed by the end of
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