The sappers of the Ha Nam Provincial Military High Command have recently defused a huge napalm bomb of 250 pounds. People in Quang Thua Hamlet, Tuong Linh Commune, Kim Bang District (Ha Nam) found a bomb with 1.2m in length believed to be left...
Over the recent time, units under the Defense Ministry found and defused successfully six bombs weighing from 250 to 1,000 pounds in Ha Tinh Province. Sappers prepare for defusing a 500-pound bomb in Ha Tinh. Especially, on June 15th, the...
Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh has asked the Ministry of Finance to allocate an additional 2,137 tons of rice from the national reserves for famine relief in the central province of Nghe An. The PM required the local authorities to use...
Vietnam’s poverty rate is likely to reach 20.7% this year if calculated to new standards as recommended by the World Bank (WB), state media reported. The figure is 2.2 times higher than that of 2010 which will be included in the Poverty Assessment...
The final workshop for the three-year “Making Markets Work Better for the Poor, Phase 2” project (M4P2) was held in Hanoi on June 21. The project is supported by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the Asian Development Bank (...
The project, “Making markets work better for poor people, Phase 2” (M4P2), including production of fruits, sea food, cassava, coffee, tea, mushroom, cows raising has created more than 2,100 jobs, and increased income for 3,600 households. The...
The first English course for 15 ethnic youth in Kon Plong District in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum was completed on Jun 19 after being conducted for six months. After the course, the trainees are equipped with skills to work in the...
A ‘Culture, Sports and Tourism Festival’ of the Cham Ethnic Minority Group will be held at the end of September, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. The event will take place at Po Klongirai Tower, at a stadium in Huu Duc...
- The Japanese Government will provide non-refundable aid to build two primary schools at a total cost of over $242,000. These schools will be built in Quang Ninh and Thanh Hoa provinces, to replace the existing ones. Japanese Ambassador to...
The Japanese government will donate $2.08 million to help Vietnam’s Mekong Delta region cope with climate change amid its foreseen huge impacts next years, state media reported. The project, to be carried out in the 2012-2013 period, will benefit...
