The Vietnam Challenge Fund (VNCF) has effectively assisted the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, hunger eradication and poverty reduction in rural and remote areas, the Communist Party of Vietnam said on its website June 5. Chairman...
The Vietnamese government is calling on the World Bank (WB) to increase its funding for the 9th Poverty Reduction Support Credit (PRSC-9) to $250 million from the current $150 million. Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung has assigned the State...
The Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology (MESCT) and the Academy of Political and Administrative Science Ho Chi Minh of Vietnam will cooperate in several areas of scientific knowledge in order to eradicate poverty and famine....
An exhibition will be held at the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City June 5 to show the lingering pains and difficult living conditions of Agent Orange/dioxin victims in Vietnam, the Communist Party of Vietnam said on its website May 31. The...
Authorities in Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City have approved a plan to build a center for bringing up and providing vocational training for AO/dioxin victims in the city. The municipal Department of Labor, War Invalids and...
The Vietnam’s central city of Danang has raised more than VND2.5 billion ($131,600) from a charitable program to help AO/dioxin victims, the Hanoi Noi online newspaper reported June 4. The program named “Joining Hands for AO Pain”, was jointly held...
Agent Orange, the deadly herbicide that the US Army used in Vietnam from 1961 to 1971 to destroy the country’s thick canopy of foliage, which provided cover for Vietnamese troops, has been listed as one of the 50 worst inventions of all time by the...
In rural villages and towns across Vietnam there are social innovators and local organisations that quietly make a real difference in the lives of poor and disadvantaged. Perhaps you have come across such an organisation? Or maybe you know of...
Ho Chi Minh City plans to build a wastewater treatment plant worth $320 million in District 2, the Lao dong newspaper reported. The 35-hectare plant is expected to have a daily treatment capacity of 800,000 cu.m of wastewater, the newspaper added,...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a scheme worth VND460 billion ($24.2 million) to set up marine protected areas from now up to 2020. In the first five-year phase costing VND300 billion, Vietnam aims to set up 16 marine...
