The building of new class and teacher rooms, toilets and the supply of clean water was the tangible result of the Primary Education for Disadvantaged Children, or PEDC, project, a workshop in Ha Noi was told yesterday. Such facilities did not exist...
The Vietnam Women's Union and the Spain's Agency for International Development and Co-operation (AECID) on Dec 5 launched an information campaign on fighting against human trafficking in the Southeast Asia country. The launching ceremony which...
The World Bank (WB) will provide more official development assistance (ODA) for Vietnam with its expectation in the coming years, the Victoria Kwakwa, WB Country Director in Vietnam said. “Vietnam has become a middle-income country and it can easily...
International donors pledged to provide Vietnam with $7.905 billion in official development assistance (ODA) in 2011, just 2% lower than last year’s record high of $8 billion. Despite a slight drop, international donors’ ODA commitment for...
The U.S. is willing to help Vietnam develop its nuclear facilities, but not enriching uranium, Ambassador Glyn Davies, Washington's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a press conference in Hanoi Dec 8.“Our government...
The UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) has pledged to boost gender equality in Vietnam to help the country achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, said an UN official at a conference in Hanoi Dec 8. The organization targets to raise...
Ten new houses, ten breeding cow and ten gifts have been presented to households in six ethnic minority villages in the border commune of Dac Nhoong, Dac Glay district, Kon Tum Central Highland province. The General Staff and the Border Gate...
A charity music performance to raise money for the poor in the upcoming lunar New Year holiday (Tet) will take place at the Ho Chi Minh City Opera House on December 10. The concert is jointly organized by the Sai Gon Giai Phong (SGGP) Newspaper and...
50 poor children from 6 remote communes in the southern province of An Giang received bicycles and studying tools, worth more than 50 million VND, from the National Fund for Vietnamese Children and the Military Bank. There are now around 1,000...
The Viettel Group has donated VND400 million to provide free-of-charge eye surgery for poor people in two central provinces of Ha Tinh and Thanh Hoa. Doctors from the Vietnam National Institute of Ophthalmology (VNIO) have conducted 200 eye...
