The B71 Unit, under the Air Defense and Air Force Service, sent a group of doctors to Quang Tien commune, Soc Son District, Hanoi to provide free healthcare and medicines to the elderly and local beneficiaries. The activity is part of a program to...
Over the past ten years, Danang City has mobilized over VND522 billion from different sources to carry out social welfare programs and to care for the poor. The information was given during a meeting to review 10 years of the Day for the poor....
A text-message based charity prog-ramme supporting the nation's poor would be launched at the beginning of next year, said Chairman of the Viet Nam Red Cross Tran Ngoc Tang at a press conference yesterday. "The 12-month prog-ramme aims to mobilise...
The Vietnamese government has issued a decree to assess damages to the environment, find out and punish polluters to better protect the environment, the government said on its website late Dec 7. As a result, four cases subjected to environmental...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and the German Technical Cooperation’s (GTZ) have joined hands to launch a project for biodiversity preservation in the forest ecosystems in Vietnam from now up to 2020. The project...
The World Bank (WB) has decided to pump more than $65 million into a project to improve environmental sanitation in Vietnam’s central coastal provinces, the Voice of Vietnam Radio said late Dec 8. Of the total, $14 million will be given to Khanh Hoa...
Authorities of Vietnam’s southern province of Dong Nai have imposed a total fine of VND3 billion ($153,800) fines on more than 200 firms and individuals for discharging wastewater into the environment so far this year. Several companies had to pay...
The governments of Vietnam and Mexico will boost cooperation in the fields of natural resources management and environmental protection, the state-run Vietnam News Agency said late Dec 9. The information was released at a meeting between Vietnamese...
The ratio of Vietnamese disadvantaged children going to school increased to 96.3% in 2009 from 81% in 2003 thanks to a project funded by the World Bank (WB) in the 2003-2010 period. Under the Primary Education for Disadvantaged Children (PEDC)...
Saigon Co.op, operator of the Co.opMart supermarket chain, on Tuesday awarded 150 scholarships worth VND5 million each to studious poor students nationwide. Students who received the scholarships will be given the opportunity to work for Saigon Co....
