Vietnam always considers empowering rural women and girls important to eradicating hunger and poverty and move further towards sustainable development. Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Pham Thi Hai Chuyen made the statement at a...
A Peace Trees Vietnam (PTVN) delegation including 18 members, most of them American veterans, has been received by the President of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organizations (VUFO), Vu Xuan Hong, in Hanoi. During the meeting on March 8, the PTVN...
A 54-year-old man was seriously injured after accidentally digging up a Vietnam War-era bomb in his garden in the central province of Quang Binh last Sunday, online newspaper Dan Tri reported. P.V.T. of Quang Trach District was admitted to hospital...
The Central Highlands province of Kon Tum has announced it would earmark VND13.3 billion ($633,000) for an education project among the Brau and Ro Mam ethnic groups in 2011 - 2015. Infrastructure will be developed and new equipment provided to...
The People’s Committee in the highland province of Kon Tum on February 25 announced plans to provide over VND13 billion ($625,000) for an education development program that will benefit two ethnic minority groups during the period 2011-2015. The...
The Culture-Tourism Village of Vietnamese Ethnic Groups plans to launch activities in 2012 to attract tourists and call for more investment. Major events include a festival to mark Vietnam’s Ethnic Minority Cultural Day (April 19), an international...
Vietnam has reported 53,900 hungry families in Feb, with 214,700 starveling people, falling 62.4% and 63.4% from a year earlier, respectively. In Jan, the country also recorded 66,300 hungry households, with 269,600 people in dire need of food, the...
On February 29, the Korean Open Doctors Society and the Ho Chi Minh City Sponsoring Association for Poor Patients worked together to put on a humanitarian medical program for the poor. Over 2,000 poor people and disadvantaged students and pupils...
HDBank has just joined with the Ho Chi Minh City sponsoring association for poor patients to offer 700 insurance cards to the poor in Long Xuyen city, An Giang province, with the total value of nearly 200 million VND. This activity is part of the...
GreenFeed Vietnam and Tuoi Tre newspaper have launched ‘Funding farmers to bring their children to school 2012’ program which will give non-interest loans to 480 poor farming households. The aim of the program is that the households can start,...
