Forty laborers from four Vietnamese provinces will be sent to Japan for refresher and technical training courses. Under a cooperation program between the Vietnamese Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) and the International...
Tuoi Tre newspaper Aug 24 awarded scholarships worth VND510 million ($24,800) to 102 poor students in the central province of Quang Tri. This is part of the “Giving Strength to Students” scholarship fund founded by the newspaper to provide financial...
Over three million Vietnamese families are living under the poverty line, accounting for 14.2% of the country’s households, said the Ministry of Labour, Invalid and Social Affairs (MoLISA). According to the ministry, 7.49% of Vietnamese families are...
The Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (VAVA)’s branch in Dak Lak has offered 100 gifts, each worth VND3 million to AO/dioxin victims. All gifts are sponsored by Thanh Nien (Youth) newspaper and RASS Group. The province currently...
In Hanoi, on August 23, Colonel Hong Thanh Quang, Vice Editor in Chief of the People’s Public Security Newspaper, presented $4,200 on behalf of the Overseas Vietnamese community in Odessa city (Ukraine) for the Vietnam Association of Victims of...
The Vietnamese embassy and other representative offices in South Africa have raised $600 to support Vietnamese Agent Orange victims. At a meeting on August 19, Vietnamese ambassador Nguyen Manh Hung spoke of serious consequences of AO/dioxin which...
Vietnam’s central province of Quang Ngai has approved a VND610 billion ($29.33 million) project on building sea dyke routes in Ly Son island district, the Quan Doi Nhan Dan newspaper reported Aug 19.The dyke routes with 5.4 kilometers in length...
The Department of Natural Resources and Environment in Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City has revised up budget for an action plan on climate change adaptation until 2015 to VND16 trillion ($769.23 million) from the previous...
Authorities of Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City have urged its health department to work with other agencies to take drastic measures to deal with the rising cases of food poisoning in recent times. These units have been asked to...
Authorities of Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi have approved to spend VND110 billion ($5.31 million) to upgrade the Sanatorium and Rehabilitation Hospital, the Thoi Bao Kinh Te reported Aug 15. The 80-sickbed facility is expected to offer medical...
