The Northern Union for Planning and Investigating Water Resources has found an underground reservoir in Vietnam’s northern province of Ha Giang’s Meo Vac district, said a local official. With the discovery, more than 8,750 locals in Meo Vac town and...
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has helped raise the area of mangrove forests to more than 22,000 hectares in Vietnam’s northern region in the 2006-2010 period, state media reported Dec 29. The figure was...
Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) joined hands with authorities in the central highlands province of Kon Tum handed over 100 houses to ethnic minorities in 3 border districts on Dec 25. Of the total, locals in Ngoc Hoi district got 50 houses...
The education budget will be 2.9 per cent higher this year at VND5 trillion ($256 million), according to the Ministry of Education and Training. Nguyen Van Ngu, head of the Ministry's Finance and Planning Department, said it would fund 100% of...
In the two years since the implementation of Decision 167-2008/QD-TTg by the Prime Minister on assisting poor families with housing, the central province of Quang Binh has supported the construction of 3,200 houses for the poor. Each house has been...
With the aim of providing charity, the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee and the Vietnam Red Cross have cooperated with hospitals in District 1 and the Ho Chi Minh City’s Preventive Health Centre to provide free medical check-ups and treatment to...
With the aim of providing charity, the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee and the Vietnam Red Cross have cooperated with hospitals in District 1 and the Ho Chi Minh City’s Preventive Health Centre to provide free medical check-ups and treatment to...
The Vietnamese Prime Minister has allowed ministries and relevant agencies to work with the World Bank (WB) to build a program on post-period of Poverty Reduction Support Credit (PRSC). The program will be set up under the model of multi-sector...
The Fund for the Poor in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi targets to mobilize VND50 billion ($2.56 million) from organizations and individuals to support the poor in 2011, said Dang Viet Quan, chairman of the Hanoi Fatherland Front. Social...
Authorities in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi will spend VND5 trillion ($256.41 million) from the municipal budget to support the poor and near-poor people from now up to 2015, the Dau Tu newspaper reported Dec 27. The city has announced its new...
