There are still challenges facing poverty reduction in the ethnic minority region, said Minister, Chairman of Committee for Ethnic Minorities, Giang Seo Phu. Mr. Phu said this at a seminar on reducing poverty among ethnic people in mountain areas,...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a VND341 billion ($17.5 million) project to improve educational facilities and training standards for students of nine ethnic minorities in six provinces in 2010-2015. The investment would help...
The Prime Minister has decided to give financial assistance to businesses and establishments that recruit ethnic minority people living in the Central Highlands. According to Decision 75/2010/QD-TTg which was signed on Nov. 29, the beneficiaries...
Vietnam will spend VND1.25 trillion ($64.1 million) on a national action program for children in the period of 2011-2020 under a regulation issued by the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA). The program is aimed to protect,...
Vietnam’s Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap has decided to invest more than VND367 billion ($18.82 million) in clean water supply program in rural areas in the 2011-2015 period. The program is aimed to raise ratio of locals using clean water to 95...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development started a $50-million clean water and environmental sanitation project funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for the first time in the central region on Nov 17. The project, that ADB...
As many as 14 female workers of Thailand’s Alliance One Apparel Company, located in Vietnam’s southern province of Ben Tre, have been hospitalized for being suspected of food poisoning. The workers reportedly suffered symptoms of stomachache,...
Vietnam’s National Assembly, the country’s highest legislative body, Monday approved a plan to allocate VND10.2 trillion ($523.08 million) from the state budget for health projects in 2011. The funding is part of the government’s VND519.29-trillion...
The Japanese government provided a total of $19 billion in official development assistance (ODA) for Vietnam by end-2009, Ambassador Tanizaki Yasuaki told the Tuoi tre newspaper late Nov 15. Japan pledges $1.2 billion in ODA for Vietnam per year,...
The World Bank (WB) and Singapore Cooperation Enterprise (SCE) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to help Vietnam’s central city of Danang to develop a transport plan. The deal was signed at the World Bank-Singapore Infrastructure...
