The provincial Red Cross of the northern province of Lao Cai June 12 donated nearly 20 high-quality reproductive cows to poor farmers in three communes of Thanh Binh, Nam Chay and Ban Sen in Muong Khuong district. Nguyen Thi Minh Hai, head of the...
Units of Military Zone 4 donated nearly VND100 million to buy 7,825 kg of rice for 285 ethnic minorities in 16 border communes between Jan and June. Military units also helped build houses for 29 households, granted gifts to 145 policy beneficiaries...
Australia will grant 300 scholarships to Vietnamese students in 2010, doubling last year’ figure, said Graham Alliband, director of the Australian Scholarship for Development in Vietnam (ASDiV) at a conference on June 15. Under the ASDiV 2010,...
Hanoi estimates that it has handed over 1,079 houses for the poor in districts since early this year, the Hanoi moi newspaper reported on June 15. The beneficiaries are from the districts of Ha Dong, Soc Son, Chuong My, Hoai Duc, My Duc, Phuc...
A party politburo member has said it is necessary to consider improving living conditions for people to be the nucleus of a new rural program. At a conference on the issue in Hanoi on June 18, Truong Tan Sang, who is also permanent member of the...
Authorities of the northern province of Yen Bai plan to deactivate a bomb which was found in the residential area in Yen Bai City, before June 18. The bomb was left by the U.S. army during the Vietnam War.
Authorities of Vietnam's central highlands province of Kon Tum have detected 600 bombs and mines during site clearance for realty project in Kroong commune, the Nguoi lao dong newspaper reported on June 16. The U.S. army released many bombs and...
A 12-year-old boy was killed and seven others were injured in a mine explosion in southern Binh Phuoc Province's Binh Long Town on June 14. The accident happened when one of the victims found a mine and tried to pry it open in order to sell the...
A Greek national donated nearly 70 million VND to Agent Orange (AO)/Dioxin victims in the central city of Da Nang on June 18. Kostas Sarantidis, whose Vietnamese name is Nguyen Van Lap, raised the money by selling books about Vietnamese AO/Dioxin...
