Vietnam Province Opens $120,000 Boeing-Funded School

Vietnam’s northern province of Dien Bien opened a primary school worth more than $120,000 funded by Boeing Group in Dien Bien district’s Muong Phang commune on May 5. Provincial authorities and a delegation of the U.S. veterans led by President of Boeing Southeast Asia, Skip Boyce, attended the launching ceremony, state media reported. The Veterans Fund of the U.S. granted 50 scholarships worth VND500,000 each to disadvantaged students in the school, General Vo Nguyen Giap’s family presented a computer room and Kim Dong Publishing House donated books and magazines.