Nearly 18,000 houses have been built for the poor in the northern province of Vinh Phuc since the year 2000. Most of the VND900 billion ($43 million) budget was raised from the campaign "the day for the poor" over the last 12 years, according to the...
- Vietnam Brewery Limited (VBL) will provide scholarships and grants worth VND4.7 billion ($225,000) over the next five years to talented students and small scale scientific research projects in water science. Each year, 20 students with excellent...
More than 100 representatives from Vietnam-Denmark joint venture companies have gathered at a workshop to discuss ways to promote corporate social responsibility (CSR) among Vietnamese enterprises. As part of the Vietnam Denmark Cooperation Program...
Authorities in Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City plans to borrow an additional $450 million from the World Bank (WB) to continue implementing an environmental sanitation project from 2015 to 2019. The municipal Steering Center for...
As many as 80 Vietnamese Agent Orange (AO) victims will be provided with free medical check-ups and treatment in South Korea next week, state media reported. This is part of a program from June 4-8 funded by the Vietnam Union of Friendship...
Hundreds of people dig around Danang’s biggest dumping ground to find goods that can be resold. The 50 hectare Khanh Son rubbish dump in Lien Chieu District receive 6,500 tons of rubbish daily, with hundreds of poor people willing to search...
The image of many border localities in the southern province of Binh Phuoc has been changing from day to day as void land and bare hills have quickly been replaced by the green of rubber forests, vast cashew and pepper plantations. Local officials...
Vietnam has reported 68,300 hungry families in May, with 288,000 starveling people, falling 5.7% and 6.3% from a year earlier, respectively. The figures of hungry households and hungers accounted for 0.7% of the total farming households and 0.6% of...
Despite lots of progress, poverty reduction remains an urgent priority, and new poverty reduction strategies are needed as current approaches are losing impact. This is one of the key recommendations in a report published by Oxfam and ActionAid...
International donors will gather at the 2012 mid-term Consultative Group (CG) Meeting for Vietnam to be held in the central province of Quang Tri from June 4-5, to seek breakthrough solutions to the country’s sustainable poverty reduction, state...
