Young soldiers from units under the Military Zone 3 have spent more than 17,000 work days to help local residents overcome natural disaster’s aftermath, repairing schools and public facilities, cleaning up the environment and in farming. In...
Nearly 33,000 poor students living in the central province of Quang Ngai have benefited from a credit program begun in 2008 by the provincial administration in collaboration with local banks. They have received loans worth nearly VND464 billion ($23...
Vietnam is estimated to have recorded 522,000 hungry families between Jan and Jun, with 2.16 million starveling people, down 13% and 4.7% on year, respectively, the government’s General Statistics Office (GSP) said. Most of the households are mainly...
Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem has recently approved the portfolio of the GIZ-sponsored project to improve local people’s living standards and reduce poverty in Tra Vinh and Ha Tinh provinces, Phase Two. The five-year project was designed to...
The income gap between the richest and poorest groups in Vietnam rose to 9.2 times last year from 8.9 times in 2008, state media reported, citing the government’s General Statistics Office (GSO).Last year, a personal average income of the richest...
The Hanoi Association of Agent Orange/Dioxin Victims has raised more than VND12 billion to support AO victims over the past seven years, said Nguyen Sy Thuy, Chairman of the Association at a review held on June 28th. The funds, donated by more than...
Cuba’s Granma International on June 24 ran an illustrated article about Vietnamese AO/dioxin victims’ struggle for justice. The articles noted that over 10 years (1961-1971), the US army sprayed approximately 80 million liters of defoliants, mostly...
Twenty-one songs about Agent Orange victims selected from 172 entries were awarded in a ceremony at the Cultural Friendship Palace in Hanoi recently.Composer Khanh Vinh from Ho Chi Minh City won the first prize with his song entitled ‘Loi Ru’ (...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has agreed to extend the development credit agreement within the framework of the World Bank-funded disaster risk management project to June 30, 2012.The State Bank of Vietnam was assigned to work with the...
The Belgian government has pledged to finance EUR30 million for water and environmental sanitation projects in central Vietnam next five years, the Vietnamese government said on its website. Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Cao...
