The Prime Minister has signed a decision to provide support from the central budget for seven districts that have high poverty rates. The districts include Vo Nhai of the northern province of Thai Nguyen, Vu Quang and Huong Khe of the central...
The Hanoi municipal People’s Committee has donated VND100 million to the army and the people and presented savings books (each worth VND5 million) to poor households in Truong Sa (Spratly) island district. The Hanoi authorities have assigned the...
Vietnam hopes that the United Nations (UN) would continue its supports for the country to fulfill millennium development goals (MDGs), especially for poverty reduction, gender equality, and social welfare, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung. The...
Vietnam is estimated to have recorded 76,000 hungry families in April, with 326,800 starveling people, down 66.2% and 55.3% on year, respectively, the government’s General Statistics Office (GSP) said. Most of the households are mainly in rural...
Engineering Company under Military Headquarters of Dak Lak Province has defused a number of unexploded ordnance (UXO) left after the war. During their mine and bomb clearance at a construction site for expanding Buon Ma Thuot Airport, sappers found...
Mr. Nguyen Sy Thuy, President of the Hanoi Association of Victims of Agent Orange said that the association will provide free medical check-ups and medicine to 10,000 Agent Orange victims during the commemoration of 50 years of the AO disaster (10...
Vietnam reports between 25,000-76,000 local people suffering from dengue fever, which results in between 45-111 fatal cases a year, Deputy Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien said at a recent meeting on coping with the disease in Asia-Pacific region...
Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan has urged to expand food safety and hygiene model programs in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi and the central highlands province of Dak Lak. Addressing a recent online meeting, Le Truong Giang, deputy head...
Up to 30% of Vietnamese patients suffer from malnutrition, showed a survey on nutritional conditions at hospitals conducted in the second half of 2010. The survey to record weight measurements and albumin levels of patients at Hanoi-based Bach Mai...
Vietnam’s northern province of Thai Nguyen has kick-started a rural clean water supply and environmental sanitation program in the 2011-2015 period with a total investment of VND300 billion ($14.35 million). Of the sum, VND120 billion comes from the...
