Authorities of Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi are planning to conduct an in-depth inspection of education establishments next month in a bid to tighten control over their operation and ensure the training quality. The municipal People’s Committee...
The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) has organized delegations to visit and present gifts to Agent Orange (AO) victims throughout the country to partly relieve their pain caused by the spraying of the toxic chemical by the US Army. On August 13, the agency...
A bomb weighing more than 200 kilos was successfully defused in Huong Hoa district of the central province of Quang Ngai on August 15. The bomb measured 1.5 metres long and had a diameter of about 80 centimeters. Experts said it was dropped by the...
The Economic-Defence Unit 5 of Military Zone 4 has handed over 61 cows and 100 pigs to 122 poor households in five communes in Muong Lat district, Thanh Hoa Province. The presents are parts of the unit’s VND 1 billion economic-defence development...
A delegation from Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam visited Mexico on Aug 2 to 12 to share experiences in poverty reduction, especially in urban areas, state media reported. The trip is under the framework of a project on supporting multidimensional...
With a target of increasing incomes for 10,000 households, creating an additional 1,000 jobs and helping at least 3,000 households escape from poverty, the Market Access for the Rural Poor Program (MARP) is expected to provide poverty...
Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City has proposed the Ministry of Planning and Investment further support it in mobilizing official development assistance (ODA) for its infrastructure projects. HCM City wants to get support from the...
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has helped more than 5,000 people in Vietnam get access to HIV-related legal assistance services over the past five years, according to a report at a meeting in Hanoi Aug 14 to review the...
The International Labor Organization (ILO) and Vietnam’s Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) co-organized a seminar on August 14 to seek measures to better implement the ILO-Vietnam Decent Work Country Program (DWCP) in the...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has allowed agencies to negotiate with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on a $95 million loan for the Secondary Cities Development Project, the An Ninh Thu Do newspaper reported on Aug 16. An association, led...
