Vietnam’s ever increasing energy demands mean developing renewable energy is a top priority in its national climate change strategy and efforts to minimize greenhouse gas emissions, radio The Voice of Vietnam (VOV) said. VOV quoted National Energy...
Vietnam has launched a dioxin detoxification center in the central city of Danang costing VND2.2 billion ($104,000) from U.S.’s Harris Freeman Foundation. The center, the 3rd nationwide, will provide detoxification and rehabilitation services to...
Batschka Stiftung, the German Children's Future Fund, has donated more than VND8 billion to fund the construction of a school in Duy Xuyen district, Quang Nam province. Phan Chau Trinh Junior Secondary School’s February 14 groundbreaking ceremony...
The central province of Binh Thuan has increased implementation of policies on preferential credit; production land; agricultural, forestry and fishery promotion; vocational training; healthcare and land and housing assistance to benefit poor and...
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked the Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs to exert more efforts for poverty reduction in ethnic communities during the 2016-20 period. Speaking at a meeting held yesterday to review the committee's 2013 work...
Despite years of poverty reduction efforts, more than 320 thousand households of poor ethnic minorities were still looking for land to live and farm on. The figures were announced by the Committee for Ethnic Minorities (CEM) at a meeting with the...
UNICEF continues to support disadvantaged children in Ninh Thuan province, especially bilingual education development for ethnic minority children, clean water, nutrition, and maternal and child care. That is the assertion of Ms. Lotta Sylwander,...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a $302 million project on developing urban areas in the country’s northern region. The project with 83% from the World Bank (WB) will focus on upgrading infrastructure in seven northern provinces...
The Japanese Government will provide $455,612 in non-refundable aid to the second phase of a maternal and infant healthcare project in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien. Under a contract signed in Hanoi on February 10, funding will be...
Measles is reportedly spreading to seven provinces and cities across Vietnam after the outbreak recorded in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi, which has killed two babies so far. The outbreaks were recorded after more than 240 cases have been found in...
