Vietnam has set a goal to build semi-boarding schools to provide education for more ethnic minority children. This follows a request by Deputy Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Thi Nghia who called for construction of more semi-boarding...
Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City targets to help around 20,000 poor households to escape poverty and cut its poverty rate to 5.4% this year from 5.7% last year, the municipal Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs said....
Local authorities are busy sending Tet gifts and money to poor households and social policy beneficiaries. The Quang Ngai provincial People’s Committee has extracted VND4 billion from its budget to support ethnic minority groups. Accordingly, each...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) is rushing to finalize a database on poverty reduction serving for a national target program on poverty reduction between 2011 and 2015, the government said on its website...
A hundred gifts, worth VND200,000 each, were presented to Agent Orange/Dioxin (AO) victims in Ha Nam province by the provincial Association for Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin. Related agencies and benefactors in the province gave gifts to the AO...
The Hanoi Association of Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin will present 16,000 gifts worth VND48 billion ($2.46 million) to the city’s AO victims on the upcoming Lunar New Year or Tet holiday. Each AO victim will receive a gift worth VND300,000, the...
The Ho Chi Minh Red Cross Society has recently raised more than VND17 billion to help needy people and Agent Orange victims in the city in the coming Lunar New Year 2011. In addition to the 29,350 gifts to policy beneficiary families, victims of...
Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has urged the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to build a master plan on solving environmental pollution in craft villages in 2011, the government said on its website. The ministry needs...
Around 30% of public buses checked this year in Hanoi emit black smoke that seriously pollutes the environment, state media reported, citing an official. Trinh Ngoc Giao, head of Vietnam Register Department, said that three in every ten buses...
