Sixteen thousand children of poor families around country will get free milk every day in a campaign by the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs to reduce malnutrition. The VND7 billion ($333,000) campaign, launched on Wednesday by the...
Some 5,896 households in 69 poorest districts nationwide have received one breeding cow each worth VND7 million from the Vietnam Red Cross under the “Cow bank” charity program. This was announced at a conference on December 21 to review the 2011...
Hanoi will earmark more than VND237 billion to present New Year gifts to some 820 local policy beneficiary people during the Vietnamese traditional Lunar New Year Festival, according to Le Toan Khang, Deputy Director of the Municipal Labor, Invalids...
The VNPT Group offered 197 scholarships “VNPT – Promoting Vietnamese Talents” to needy students having good studying results in Nam Dinh northern province on December 18. Namely, the sponsor granted 7 scholarships, worth VND 5 million each, to 7...
The German Ministry of Foreign Affairs has granted EUR342,363 to help defuse bomb, and land mines left by the war in Vietnam’s central province of Thua Thien-Hue. The funding given through the Solidarity Service International (SODI), a German non-...
The French Development Agency (AFD) will provide a non-refundable aid of EUR1 million to a technical support project to help Vietnam develop a sustainable microfinance sector, the Dau Tu newspaper reported. An agreement to this effect was signed...
The Japanese government will continue assisting Vietnam in realizing development goals, including infrastructure improvement and poverty reduction, Japanese Deputy Minister of Finance Nakao Takehiko said. Takehiko made the statement at his...
A conference on boosting cooperation between state agencies and Vietnamese non-governmental organizations (VNGOs) in national development took place in Hanoi December 14. The event focused on discussing global issues, including the abuse of children...
The German government pledged to provide EUR289.2 million in official development assistance (ODA) for Vietnam to implement bilateral cooperative development projects in the next two years. The announcement was made at a press conference held by the...
Vietnam and Japan are expected to sign some additional deals worth $1.2 billion, raising total official development assistance (ODA) pledged by the Japanese government $2.4 billion in the 2011 fiscal year ending in March 2012, a local official said...
