The Vietnamese Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST) announced on Aug 18 its project costing VND1.51 trillion ($72.7 million) to conserve culture of ethnic minorities by 2020, state media reported. The project, which has been approved by...
HA NOI – Solid houses have been built for nearly 9,000 of 240,000 poor households in the Mekong Delta provinces as the first step to eliminating make-shift houses in the area, the program's Steering Committee for the south-west region said. Each...
The Vietnamese People’s Association in Russia on Aug. 19 raised nearly $33,000 to support Agent Orange/AO victims in the home country. Of the total, German Zakharliev, Director of the Sadovod Trade Centre, where the raising-fund ceremony was...
General Secretary of Mexican Labor Party (PT) Alberto Anaya Gutierrez donated 120 wheelchairs to the Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange/dioxin (VAVA) in Mexico City on August 16. The visiting head of the Communist Party of Vietnam...
A delegation led by Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh on August 16 presented VND3.24 billion to the Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange and Dioxin (VAVA) Central Committee as support for AO/dioxin victims. The sum was donated by cadres...
The central province of Ha Tinh should employ synchronous measures for getting rid of poverty and achieving rapid and sustainable development, the National Assembly Chairman said. NA Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung addressed a ceremony marking Ha Tinh...
The Australian government will fund VND51 billion ($2.46 million) to help implement the second phase of the National Program 135 on poverty reduction in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Ngai. The information was released at a recent conference to...
Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Cooperation (SMBC) morning today [August 12] signed agreements to lend combined $95 million to Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) to develop the Vung Ang 1 coal-fired...
The Danish government has provided over $4 million for the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak to implement an agricultural and rural development program in the 2008-2012 period. At a working session with the provincial leaders on August 12,...
As many as 53 poisoning cases involving 1,776 people occurred in Vietnam in the first six months of this year, dropping by 40% and 70%, respectively from a year earlier. The figures were released at a meeting on food safety held by the Central...
