The Vietnamese government spent roughly VND84 trillion ($4 billion) on social security programs in 2011, rising 20% from a year earlier, the Ministry of Finance said. The funding was used to support low-income earners and poor households amid...
The average income of poor households nationwide is set to rise 1.6 times this year over last year, according to the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs. The income of poor families in mountainous and ethnic areas is projected to increase...
Bomb and Mine Clearance Team, under MAG Project in Quang Binh Province, has removed two big bombs left in the war to a safer area. The 750lb bombs, 80cm in diameter and 1.6m in length, were unearthed at a construction site in Quarter 1, Bac Ly Ward...
The Vietnamese government has set a target of cutting the poverty rate to 10% in 2012 from 12% in 2011, the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) said. This year’s poverty reduction program will focus on building infrastructure...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has urged the National Committee on Climate Change and other agencies to soon finish a national action plan on climate change amid its greatly negative impacts. The PM made the request while chairing the...
The U.K., Australian and Danish governments will finance a total of $93 million for Vietnam to implement the national target program on rural clean water and environmental hygiene in the 2012-2015 period. Representatives of the three governments Jan...
A blood donation campaign entitled “Red Sunday 2012” in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi Jan 8 collected more than 350 units of blood from voluntary donors, down 75% from a year ago. The annual event is aimed to mobilize local residents to donate...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a national food safety strategy in the 2011-2020 period with an aim to improve the public awareness of the pressing issue. The strategy aims to have 70% of flood producers and traders and 80% of...
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has pledged to fund $86 million for a Vietnam’s healthcare system support project in the 2012-2016 period. The project has two components: boosting grassroots healthcare networks and...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a project on providing medical devices for a general hospital in North using official development assistance (ODA) loans from the Austrian government. The PM assigned the Ministry of Finance to...
