Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a $4 million non-refundable aid from the government of Japan to carry out an unexploded ordnance (UXO) cleanup project in the central province of Ha Tinh. Through Japan Atomic Industrial Forum (...
Nearly 170,000 people living in Bien Hoa and Phu Cat airports, two hotspots contaminated with dioxin in Vietnam after the Vietnam War ended in 1975, have been no longer exposed to the dioxin/orange agent risks thanks to a cleanup project funded by...
Central Quang Binh province is working hard to distribute more than 1,200 tons of rice as aid from the Government intended to help poor people overcome the current between-crop food shortage. The mountainous Tuyen Hoa and Bo Trach districts will...
The Ministry of Health, Vietnam Social Insurance, and Vietnamese Women Association has given 4,000 health insurance cards to households whose economic conditions are close to the poverty line in the northern province of Thanh Hoa. Health Minister...
Vietnam still has social problems to solve though it has reaped outstanding achievements in poverty reduction in the past two decades. The country’s poverty rate went down to 6% last year from 58% in 1993, the Ministry of Planning and Investment...
Authorities in northern Lai Chau province are making efforts to promote local crops and raise incomes for local residents, aiming to reduce hunger and poverty. The promoted crops include cassava, bananas and edible canna, which are highly...
The northern mountainous province of Son La is focusing its efforts on socio-economic development in ethnic minority areas, seeking to lower the rate of impoverished household by 3%-4% per year through 2019. The locality aims to bring electricity to...
The French Development Agency (AFD) and authorities of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on March 17 signed a contract worth millions of euro to provide medical equipment for installation at Can Tho General Hospital. The contract is under the...
Vietnam has launched a $2-million project receiving financial support from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to improve HIV prevention capacity in three provinces until the end of 2017. The project will focus on promoting...
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has recently launched the emerging pandemic threats 2 (EPT-2) program to support efforts in Vietnam to better prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats. The program is...
