Donations of everyday items and cash worth a total of VND3.3 billion from international sources have come to nearly 6,000 poor households in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang to help them overcome the aftermath of the 2011 floods. The donations...
Nine landmines that were recently found along the Lo River in northern Phu Tho Province were destroyed today, according to Doan Hung District's authority. The landmines, left by the US Army, were later discovered when four secondary school students...
A music association named “Dioxin Country Mascaret “(DCM) has been set up in Bordeaux, France to raise funds for Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin. The association’s founder, French singer Christian Filhos, also known as Gignac, says...
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has urged the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) to focus on reducing poverty, improving the quality of human resources, promoting regulations on gender equality, and the control and prevention of domestic violence and women...
The PM has agreed with the supplement of $45,000 in reciprocal capital to the technical assistance project to reduce poverty in Ia Pa District, Gia Lai Province on a trial basis. The PM has also agreed to extend the implementation duration of the...
Two years after the implementation of the Government program supporting rapid and sustainable poverty reduction in poor districts, the northern province of Lao Cai has helped thousands of poor families gain adequate housing, given loans worth...
Two bombs with a length of 0.5 meters each were defused in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum. Unexploded ordnance cast by the U.S. military during the Viet War remains a serious problem in Vietnam, where many people have been killed either...
A team of volunteer doctors and surgeons from the Republic of Korea are continuing to conduct surgery on Vietnamese Agent Orange victims in the Mekong delta province of Long An. The operations are being performed following a two-day observation at...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources said that it would carry out a project on coping with environmental pollution in handicraft villages in the 2012-2015 period, costing about VND1.4 trillion ($67.3 million). The project...
Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City is facing increasing air pollution as smoke, dust and noise pollution levels are much beyond the permitted levels, experts warned. Recent statistics made by six environment monitoring stations in...
