General News

  • The Asian Development Bank (ADB) plans to increase loans to Vietnam to $2 billion in the coming years, President Haruhiko Kuroda said at a meeting with Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in Hanoi on Feb 28. Apart from assistance and cooperation in...
    Tuesday, 8th March, 2011
  • Vietnam’s central province of Quang Tri targets to create jobs for 47,500 workers by 2015 through socio-economic development programs. The locality will maintain an unemployment rate below 4.2%. To gain these set goals, Quang Tri will continue...
    Tuesday, 8th March, 2011
  • The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will allocate $48.35 million for a provincial-level project to support the development of agriculture, rural areas and farmers in Vietnam. The project aims to raise the living conditions of...
    Tuesday, 8th March, 2011
  • The People’s Committee of Huong Hoa District, Quang Tri Province, has approved a plan to build a communal house for Van Kieu and Pa Co ethnic minority groups who had surnames named after late President Ho Chi Minh.The VND 22 billion project is a...
    Tuesday, 8th March, 2011
  • Poverty has urged children of ethnic minority group Van Kieu in the central province of Quang Tri to fill their stomachs by scouring for food from rubbish heaps dumped at local markets. Three times a day in the morning, afternoon and at sunset time...
    Tuesday, 8th March, 2011
  • The Phu Yen Provincial Red Cross has held various meaningful activities to help local needy people during the Tet holiday. According to Mr. Dinh Cong Danh, Vice Chairman of the Red Cross, the organization’s branches have raised funds of more than...
    Tuesday, 8th March, 2011
  • The Prime Minister has signed a decision on agricultural insurance for the 2011-2013 period, which provides 100 percent insurance for poor households or peasants on a trial basis. The state will also provide an 80 percent assistance package for...
    Tuesday, 8th March, 2011
  • Taiwan's contribution to an international effort to help Vietnam clear unexploded bombs and reduce poverty has won thanks, not just from the local government but also from farmers who have benefited from the program, officials said March 4. Wu Jung-...
    Tuesday, 8th March, 2011
  • The Ho Chi Minh Sponsor Association for Poor Patients offered free-of-charge medical treatment to more than 1.7 million poor patients in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia in 2010. The information was released at a recent meeting in the city to review the...
    Tuesday, 25th January, 2011
  • Vietnam’s southern metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City has reported 89,000 abortion cases in 2010, raising concerns about loose management on reproductive health, state media reported, citing an official.  The figure, including 2,000 cases reported...
    Tuesday, 25th January, 2011