Five years after the implementation of the national program on poverty reduction, the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum has seen a rapid poverty reduction with people’s living standard in poor communes remarkably improved. The poor have had...
Authorities in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi have announced its new poverty line for the 2011-2015 period, under which it will be VND750,000/person/month in urban area and VND550,000/person/month in rural area. A rural person, who earns VND551,000...
Ophthalmology doctors from Ho Chi Minh City have provided free eye operations to some 200 disadvantaged patients in the Mekong delta province of Soc Trang. From January 9 to January 10, ophthalmologists from Nguyen Trai Hospital conducted free eye...
Doctors from the Ho Chi Minh City-based Hoa Tam Charity and Cambodia’s Reasmey Kompong Som Clinic have offered free-of-charge medical checkups and medicines for 200 needy Vietnamese people in Preah Siahnouk province. Hoa Tam Charity also donated...
Poverty reduction has been successful in remote mountain regions thanks to National Program 135 which began in 1998. This set a good example for nation’s path to social equality and development. During Vietnam’s industrialization and modernization...
The Ha Noi Fund for Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin Victims was launched today [Jan 14], the state-run Vietnam News Agency said Jan 14. The fund, established by the Municipal Association of AO Victims, is expected to mobilize different sources from both...
Vietnam raised the rate of rural residents using clean water to 83% by end-2010 against 75% in 2008, said the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. More than 84,000 clean water supply systems were put into service nationwide in 2010,...
The Vietnamese government has asked the ministries of Health, Public Security, Agriculture and Rural Development to impose higher fines on food safety violations to ensure local people’s health, state media reported Jan 5. Deputy Prime Minister...
Hanh Phuc International Women & Children Hospital, the first Singapore standard facility in Vietnam, was put into operation in the southern province of Binh Duong Jan 3 after three-year construction. The 260-sickbed hospital is managed by...
Just 10% of 72,000 Vietnamese kidney patients in the final stages get blood purification, Bach Mai Hospital’s statistics showed. The rest 90% died because they can not afford high expenses for the blood purification, doctors said, adding that the...
