Authorities in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Ngai have asked the Ministry of Health’s urgent intervention to control a strange skin disease which is quickly spreading in the locality. Local authorities asked the ministry to send another...
Japan’s T.S. BOND Company plans to build an international hospital for cancer treatment in Hoa Lac hi-tech park in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi. On Jan 8, Nguyen Cong Tan, chairman of Thanh Tay University meets with Unno Shigemasa from the...
Vietnamese Prime Minster Nguyen Tan Dung has ratified the second phase of a rural infrastructure project funded by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to boost development in the central province of Quang Nam. The project has...
Plan International, a non-governmental organization (NGO) based in Spain, has pledged to grant $3.2 million to support needy children in Vietnam’s central highlands province of Kon Tum by 2016. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) to this effect was...
The World Bank (WB) will provide Vietnam loans worth $973 million to carry out three projects, covering highway, urban development and poverty reduction, state media reported on Jan 13. An agreement and related legal documents to the three...
The Danang Municipal Fatherland Front Committee hosted a meeting on January 8 to present Tet gifts worth a total of VND3.3 billion ($157,000) to 6,766 poor households in the city. The Hoa Vang district People’s Committee in Danang also plans...
Bao Viet Insurance Co, Ltd has coordinated with the Vietnam Children’s Fund to present 1,000 gifts worth a total of VND200 million to poor children in 17 provinces on the occasion of the upcoming Lunar New Year festival. The provinces include Hai...
The Vietnamese government and the World Bank (WB) Jan 12 signed a loan agreement worth $150 million for Vietnam’s poverty reduction support credit program 10 (PRSC 10). The agreement and related legal documents on the aid were signed by State Bank...
Many businesses, agencies and domestic and foreign social organizations have joined charitable activities to help the poor and disadvantaged in the central and southern provinces prepare for the upcoming Tet (Lunar New Year) festival. In the...
More than VND6.6 trillion ($309.86 million) were raised in a charity program for the poor entitled “Noi Vong Tay Lon” (Joining the Great Fold) which was held in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City on Dec 31. The annual telethon, the 10th of its kind, was...
