Vice State President Nguyen Thi Doan presented 50 bicycles and 50 scholarships worth a total of VND100 million ($4,800) on September 16 to support disadvantaged children in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai with their studies. In addition...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved the portfolio of a poverty reduction project in the central highlands region using loan from the World Bank (WB), the government said on its website. The project, to be carried out in the 2013-...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved the portfolio of a poverty reduction project in the central highlands region using loan from the World Bank (WB), the government said on its website. The project, to be carried out in the 2013-...
Vietnam almost failed to solve the rampant shortage of residential land and farmland to roughly two million ethnic inhabitants across the country, local lawmakers said at a meeting of the National Assembly (NA)’s Steering Committee on Sep 13. Many...
Each year the ethnic minorities in northern Cao Bang Province celebrate their crops and show their gratefulness to the ancestors and to god of agriculture and ask them for a good crop next year. The people here will choose a day between September 7...
The 8th Culture, Sports and Tourism Festival of North-eastern Ethnic People will be held from September 27-30 in Tuyen Quang Province as part of the 2012 Tuyen Quang Culture and Tourism Week. The festival will feature a wide range of events...
The Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) province of Dak Nong will invest more than VND2 trillion ($95 million) from now until 2015 to improve the lives of its ethnic minority residents. A Tin Tuc (News) newspaper report says that the money, mobilized...
- Over 1,000 students and teachers of two secondary schools in Binh Dinh have received upgrades to their drinking water systems and latrines under the sponsorship of the oil and gas company Talisman Vietnam and East Meets West. The gifts, worth...
A project costing $5.97 million to utilize population information was launched in Vietnam on Sep 17 under the support of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UNHABITAT). With a fund worth $4.5...
Germany is willing to increase its development aid to Vietnam and help the Southeast Asian nation in finance, science and technology, Minister of Economics and Technology Philipp Roesler said. Mr. Roesler made the commitment at a meeting with...
