Vietnam has been applauded by the international community for the timely submission of its biennial update report to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The timely completion of the report demonstrates the Vietnam...
While many schools rush to import textbooks to use in their teaching, the most famous schools in Vietnam still stand apart from the movement. Hoang Van Chau, rector of the Hanoi Foreign Trade University, said imported textbooks have been used at his...
The PM has agreed to raise monthly power subsidy for poor households and households with social beneficiaries to VND46,000. The PM also assigned the Ministry of Finance to allocate VND685 billion from the 2014 state budget in advance for localities...
PM Nguyen Tan Dung has signed a decision issuing an action plan to cut poverty rates to below 5% nationwide and less than 30% in poor districts. The move aims to implement Resolution 76/2014/QH13 on pushing for sustainable poverty reduction by 2020...
A cultural festival of Vietnam’s Thai ethnic group will be held in Lai Chau province this month. Themed “Preserving and promoting the Thai ethnic group’s cultural identity in Vietnam’s development and international integration”, the festival will...
Ethnic minority people in the northern provinces of Lai Chau and Son La will learn to prepare for natural disasters in an $1.8 million project launched last week by the Vietnam Red Cross. The project will focus on gender-sensitive disaster risk...
Ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands have benefited from the big poverty-alleviating credit policies of the government as well as credit programs funded by local budget. According to the Steering Committee for the Central Highlands, those...
The Voice of Vietnam (VOV) handed over a 5kW FM transmitter to Kon Tum province on December 24 in a bid to expand its coverage in the Central Highlands, which is home to a large number of ethnic minority groups. The new equipment is believed to help...
Foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have provided an estimated $300 million development aid so far this year, the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organizations (VUFO) said at a meeting in Hanoi on Dec 19. The aid has enable Vietnam to solve...
About one quarter of Vietnamese women in post-menopause suffer from osteoporosis, said experts from the Institute of Social and Medical Studies (ISMD) at a workshop in Hanoi on December 23. Director of the ISMD Nguyen Truong Nam said the condition...
