The Vietnamese government has channeled VND114 trillion ($5.43 billion) to assist 21.4 million poor households in poverty reduction through networks of the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) over the past ten years. The information was released...
The 2013 Culture, Sports, and Tourism Festival of Khmer people got underway in the southern province of An Giang on April 15, attracting thousands of local people of Kinh, Hoa and Cham ethnic groups. As many as 650 Khmer musicians, artists, and...
State Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan hosted a reception for 80 outstanding young ethnic minority people in Hanoi on April 19. The delegates, who represent over 3.6 million young people from 46 ethnic minority groups in Vietnam, are currently...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung yesterday launched an order to start the construction of the international gateway port in the northern city of Haiphong after nine years of preparation. Haiphong international gateway port or Lach Huyen...
OPEC’s Fund for International Development (OFID) will provide a $34.2 million loan, the largest sum since it first provided funding to Vietnam in 1978, to help Vietnam upgrade rural roads. The agreement was signed by Director General of OPEC’s Fund...
The U.S. Embassy in Hanoi launched on Apr 17 a program costing $9 million to help roughly 10,000 Vietnamese people with disabilities, the embassy said in a press release. Through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), people with...
Sappers of the Gia Lai Province’s Military Command have recently defused 1.6 tons of bombs and mines. These unexploded ordnances (UXOs) were found 1m underground while construction workers were digging the foundation for a house at Princess Huyen...
Trees and vegetables have appeared in many areas of central Thua Thien–Hue province, zones once uninhabitable because of unexploded ordnance (UXO). Over 11,300 hectares of land in the locality are now clear of bombs and mines left from wars thanks...
Danish Demining Group (DDG) Vietnam on April 12 launched an education project for the prevention of accidents related to landmines and unexploded ordnances (UXO) in central Quang Nam province’s Duy Xuyen district. The first phase of the project aims...
1000 Quang Tri families suffering from post-war bombs and mines now have a stable life thanks to a project on growing mushrooms in Cam Lo and Trieu Phong districts. In Quang Tri, 80 percent of land area is contaminated by wartime bombs and landmines...
