The People’s Committee of southern central Phu Yen province has asked its authorities by November 30 to finalize the list of poor households receiving housing support under a government decree. The province strives to provide the support to 20% of...
The People's Committee of southern central Phu Yen Province asked provincial authorities to finalize the list of poor households receiving government housing support by November 30. The province aims to provide support to 20% of the targeted...
VinGroup, one of the leading firms in Vietnam, has donated 1,000 breeding cows worth VND15 billion ($700,000) in total to poor people in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong. The provincial People’s Committee and the Central Highlands Steering...
President Truong Tan Sang met with 78 outstanding ethnic minority students who attended a ceremony on Saturday honoring their achievements in the past academic year. President Sang said that the visit to the capital gave students the chance to...
Provincial authorities and the Centre for Vietnamese Disabled Children paid for 150 disabled ethnic minority children's surgeries in the northern mountainous province of Son La between November 3 and 10. The provincial Department of Labour, War...
The World Bank (WB) is planning to lend about $6 billion to Vietnam to help the country to boost the medium-term socio-economic development in the 2015-2017 period, state-run Vietnam Investment Review reported on Nov 3. The bank will finance Vietnam...
Vietnam has launched a $15 million program on HIV prevention until 2019 with financial support from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The Healthy Markets program aims to encourage the investment of local private sector and...
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has signed an agreement to help Vietnam’s Ministry of Transport to carry out a project to enhance capacity in road maintenance. The Project for Capacity Enhancement in Road Maintenance, which began...
At least one million poor and disadvantaged people who have difficulty in accessing medical services in remote areas are being given free medical check-ups and treatment during a campaign on humanitarian medical care for communities in 2014. The...
Vietnam will tighten control over compulsory rehabilitation for drug users to avoid social insecurity, officials said at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on Nov 3. Compulsory treatment will enable local authorities to better...
