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PSNews - Deputy Minister of Public Security Senior Lieutenant General Le Van Tuyen hosted a meeting with Senior Vice President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Naoki Ando on the afternoon of November 25, in Hanoi.

PSNews - The Police Department of Fire and Rescue under the Ministry of Public Security in coordination with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) organized a training program on fire and rescue for police officers of the Police Division of Fire and Rescue under the Lam Dong Provincial Police Department on June 19-20, 2024.

PSNews - Minister of Public Security General To Lam had a meeting on the afternoon of August 1 with Vice President of JICA in Vietnam Yamada Junichi.

PSNews - Minister of Public Security General To Lam received incoming Chief of JICA in Vietnam Sugano Yuichi and outgoing Chief of JICA in Vietnam Akira Shimizu, on the morning of March 27, in Hanoi.

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on January 19 released a statement saying that the 17th Annual JICA President Award has been awarded to 42 individuals and organizations to honor their contributions to socio-economic development in developing countries.

PSNews - The Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City (PI HCMC) hold an inauguration of its new Biosafety Level-3 Laboratory (BSL-3) on January 17. For this new laboratory, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has supported the main materials and equipment such as the air conditioning system, the wastewater treatment system, and the two-door autoclave, with a total value of 200 million yen (nearly 40 billion VND). 

The cold boxes -RCW25- manufactured by B Medical Systems, will be used for delivering vaccines nationwide. They are attached with temperature monitoring devices to ensure the ideal vaccine storage temperature of 2°C to 8°C throughout the entire transportation and vaccination process.

On April 9, JICA held a ceremony to handover three medical equipment with a total value of 50 million JPY, including an ECMO machine (the heart-lung by-pass machine), to Hue Central Hospital. 

JICA decided to provide NHTD testing equipments including an automatic PCR system, worth totally 60 million yen(roughly 13 billion VND). 

These aid goods were transferred without delay from Japan and will arrive at Da Nang qirport in two batches, the first at 17h30 of October 19.

As the second step in emergency assistance to counter with Covid-19 in Vietnam, responding to an urgent request from Pasteur Institute Ho Chi Minh City, JICA has decided to provide to the Institute an emergency aid of testing reagents (equivalent to a total of 4 million yen) which is used for rapid detection of Covid-19.

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) organizes the Seminar for provincial attraction for investment and business opportunity for food value chain development on January 14 in Hanoi, and on January 16 in Ho Chi Minh City.

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE), and the Department of Natural Resources and Environment (DONRE) of Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) jointly organize the Final Workshops of the Project on Support the Planning and Implementation of Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) in a Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) Manner (SPI-NAMA), on January 7 in HCMC and on January 9 in Hanoi.

At the Provincial People’s Committee of Thua Thien Hue Province, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Humanity & Inclusion (HI) signed the MoC regarding the placement of international volunteers in the partner hospitals of Thua Thien Hue and Quang Tri provinces.

The Quang Ninh Provincial People’s Committee (Quang Ninh PPC) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) jointly organized the "Final Seminar for Green Growth Dissemination and Promotion" in Ha Long City on November 8 as part of JICA’s technical cooperation project for "Green Growth Promotion in Ha Long Bay Area, Quang Ninh Province".

PSNews -Urban railways is considered an alternative mean of transport with lower CO2 emission compared to motorbikes or cars.

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the World Bank (WB) on August 7 jointly launched a knowledge-sharing programme to assist policymakers in Vietnam with developing new models of care services for the elderly as Vietnam’s population is aging at a pace faster than any of its regional peers.

The “Workshop for promoting the implementation of the Sendai Framework ― Local natural disaster risk reduction (DRR) Planning” was jointly organized in Hanoi on March 6 by the Vietnam Disaster Management Authority (VNDMA) under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)’s Vietnam Office.

The kick off meeting of the Project for “Strengthening the Operation of Hotline for Counselling and Supporting Trafficked Survivors” (Project Phase II) was held in Hanoi on December 14. This is a Technical Cooperation Project between the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA).