The website www.cantho.gov.vn, approved by the Ministry of Culture and Information, gives access to information on the city’s management activities, policies socio-economic development, and on departments, agencies and four districts in the city.
The project, costing 107 million USD, of which 85 million USD will be sourced from a World Bank loan, will be implemented in Ha Noi, the central coastal city of Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City, and will run through 2010.
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The proposal from southern-based authorities to the Posts and Telematics Ministry at a conference Friday to review the project in the south came after the program failed to make much progress.
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"We would like to have overall authority of all IT projects in HCM City State offices and projects funded by the exchequer," said Le Manh Ha, director of the city's Post and Telematics Department.
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