A Denmark-funded community development project, which is designed for ethnic minority groups in Vietnam's northern region, will continue its second phase in Hoa Binh, Son La, Dien Bien, Lai Chau, Nghe An and Ha Tinh provinces from 2010 to 2014. An...
The World Bank estimated that 28 million Vietnamese, or 35% of the country’s population, are still living under poverty line and 85% of them are residing in rural Vietnam, therefore improving living conditions for those people is an urgent task for...
Vietnam will offer vocational training courses to generate 100,000 steady jobs for women a year in the period of 2010-2015. Under a newly-approved project by the government, it will support female laborers to find jobs, have stable incomes, reduce...
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked the central highlands province of Dak Lak to take drastic measures to meet the GDP growth target of 12% and reduce poverty rate to below 10% this year. The PM delivered the request during a working session...
The Farmers’ Association of the central province of Quang Nam has said that in 2009, 54,845 farmer families were given preferential loans worth VND560 billion ($29.3 million) to invest in economic development. A majority of the loans has been used...
Workers building a road in a mountainous area of Duc Pho district, unearthed a 500 kg bomb on March 1, only fifty meters from some houses. Huynh Kim Lap, director of the construction firm that detected the bomb, said that he asked the local...
The French Agence Française de Développement (AFD) pledged VND370 billion ($19.3 million) for Vietnam’s northern province of Bac Ninh to upgrade its irrigation system, the state-run Vietnam News Agency said March 4. The project will upgrade Phu My,...
Vietnam’s northern province of Ninh Binh put into operation a VND1.399 trillion ($73.25 million) general hospital on Feb. 27 after the six-year construction, the Vietnam News Agency said Feb. 27. Located on a site of 6,500 square meters, the 700-...
Up to 80% of children in rural Vietnam are contracted with parasitic worms, the Ministry of Health was quoted by the Ha Noi Moi newspaper as saying March 2. The lack of sanitation, the use of untreated night soil as a fertilizer in agriculture,...
Authorities of Vietnam’s northern province of Quang Ninh have approved a plan to build a new treatment area worth VND58 billion ($3.04 million) at the provincial general hospital. Of the sum, 60% will come from the state budget and the rest from the...
