The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training held a meeting on October 2 to launch special education tasks for the 2014-2015 academic year, with more support to be given to children with disabilities and development disorders. Nguyen...
A 500-kg bomb has emerged from the bank of a river in the northern Vietnamese province of Quang Tri after continuous rains in the area, local authorities reported. While patrolling along the bank of the Se Pon River on Sept 24, border guards found...
The Fatherland Front Committee of the northern mountainous province Lao Cai provided houses, worth 60-120 million VND each, for 25 low-income families in Si Ma Cai district this month. The committee’s Vice Chairwoman Ban Thu Thao said the committee...
Preferential loans from a bank for the poor have proved their efficiency when helping poor people, particularly those belonging to ethnic minority groups, in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong escape from poverty. Director of the Vietnam...
The Government’s Program 135, which aims to improve living conditions for rural residents with a particular focus on ethnic minority communities, has proven effective in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai. The province has spent over VND1...
Experts on ethnic affairs, media agency leaders and reporters attended a conference organized by the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) in Hanoi on September 24 to discuss measures to enhance the efficiency of VNA’s efforts to bring news to ethnic minority...
The UK government is willing to lend $500 million to urban railway No. 3 in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi, Ambassador Giles Lever said at a meeting with Nguyen The Thao, chairman of the municipal People’s Committee on Sept 22. Mr. Lever noted that...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has to date provided $630 million in financial support for Vietnam to help the country pilot restructuring some state-owned enterprises (SOEs) over the past ten years. The restructuring of SOEs aims to help Vietnam...
A conference in Hanoi on Sept 24 was told that 13% of deaths among children under five in Vietnam are caused by diarrhoea. The World Health Organization was quoted as saying that diarrhoeal disease was the second leading cause of death among under-...
The Ministry of Health’s Preventive Health Department released a warning about the spread of pinkeye in some northern areas, especially Hanoi, over the past two weeks, affecting thousands of people. Just at the Central Eye Hospital, the Hanoi Eye...
