General News

  • The Program “Winging children’s dream of going to school” with supports from individual donators and organizations was held on the night of November 15th in the Junior Secondary School of Huong Phung, Huong Hoa District, Quang Tri. The Programme was...
    Monday, 21st November, 2011
  • The first ever show featuring traditional costumes of 54 ethnic groups from all over the country will be held at the Viet Nam Culture - Tourism Village in Son Tay, 35km west of central Ha Noi, from November 25-28. Over 250 people from 63 provinces...
    Monday, 21st November, 2011
  • The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) fund “For Victims of Agent Orange” on Nov. 15 presented gifts to Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin victims in the northern provinces of Ha Giang and Quang Ninh. Five families of victims of AO/dioxin in Ha Giang’s Bac Quang...
    Monday, 21st November, 2011
  • A military command in the central province of Quang Ngai on Nov 15 proposed its headquarters quickly handle a 250-kilogram unexploded bomb that was unearthed in a rice field. While waiting for actions by the provincial military headquarters, Ba To...
    Monday, 21st November, 2011
  • Vietnam’s central province of Quang Ngai is estimated to need more than VND509 billion ($24.35 million) to carry out a wartime bombs and mines clearance project between 2010 and 2015. The project will focus on cleaning up 20,245 hectares of land in...
    Monday, 21st November, 2011
  • The program Gau Do gan ket yeu thuong (Gau Do to connect love) which will raise VND5 billion to help poor children welcome Tet (Lunar New Year) early next year was launched on Nov 15 at the Duxton Hotel in HCMC’s District 1. The program was...
    Monday, 21st November, 2011
  • Five thousand senior citizens, veterans, workers, students, and children joined the fifth “United for the Poor” walk to raise money for Ho Chi Minh City’s Fund for the Poor last Sunday in Binh Tan District.They started on Vanh Dai Trong Street...
    Monday, 21st November, 2011
  • The Vietnamese Prime Minister Nov 11 approved a policy framework for the 10th Poverty Reduction Credit Support program (PRSC 10) to serve as a basis for the PRSC-10 negotiations with the World Bank (WB). The negotiation delegation is led by Le Minh...
    Monday, 21st November, 2011
  • Ninety five international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have pledged to provide $165.5 million in aid to poverty reduction programs in Vietnam next year. The information was released at a meeting hosted by the Vietnam Union of Friendship...
    Monday, 21st November, 2011
  • Plan International, a children's organization working with communities in 50 developing countries to alleviate child poverty, will help improve the living conditions of poor children in the Central Highland province of Kon Tum.  This was...
    Monday, 21st November, 2011