The Education U.K. Exhibition 2013 is scheduled to take place in three Vietnamese cities of Hanoi, Danang and Ho Chi Minh City starting Saturday [Oct 19]. The education fairs held by the British Council in Hanoi on Oct 19, in HCM City on Oct 20 and...
Nearly 1,000 poor people, mostly from Raglai and Ede ethnic communities in the mountainous district of Khanh Vinh in the central Khanh Hoa province, were given free health check-ups, treatment and medicine on October 9. The activity was carried out...
The poverty rate among Hanoian blind people has been dropped to 17.5% as the visually-impaired people in the city have received loans, job training and job offers from the local authority in recent times. The city has given loans worth over VND14...
Vietnam is strongly committed to working with other member states and the United Nations for a comprehensive and implementable post-2015 development agenda aiming to eradicate poverty, achieve inclusive economic growth, promote social development...
Vietnam needs to pay more attention and invest more in poverty reduction and ensuring food security, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Thi Xuan Thu has said. At a meeting held in the Red River Delta province of Thai Binh on...
Up to 106 primary schools are offering lessons on Jrai and Bahnar languages to pupils of ethnic groups as a move to keep them from falling into oblivion. The move, underway since 2008, is in pursuant to the Ministry of Education and Training’s...
New Zealand will continue to provide official development assistance (ODA) for Vietnam in the coming years to assist the Southeast Asian nation in its socio-economic development and poverty eradication, said Prime Minister John Key. PM Key made this...
The European Union (EU) is considering raising official development assistance (ODA) for Vietnam in the next seven years while reducing its ODA planned for other countries, said Ambassador and Head of the EU delegation to Vietnam Franz Jessen....
Leading vaccine manufacturers from developing countries are participating in a meeting in Hanoi to share experience in vaccine production and management, state media reported. The 14th annual meeting of the Developing Countries Vaccine Manufacturers...
Nearly 3.2 million children aged below five in Vietnam are now undernourished, accounting for 42.1% of the country’s total 7.6 million kids, said Dr. Trinh Hong Son from the National Institute of Nutrition. Among those, more than two million...
