Flood shelters constructed for residents in central provinces have proven effective, so there is no need to relocate poor people living in flood-prone areas, Deputy Minister of Construction Nguyen Tran Nam said. Under a project initiated by the...
Economic experts and journalists have called for closer bonds among the mass media, policy makers, economic managers and entrepreneurs to foster the national cause of poverty reduction and alleviation and sustainable development. They made the call...
Vietnam’s central province of Quang Binh will carry out a poverty reduction project worth $28.6 million with support from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). The project aims to increase incomes and reduce vulnerability of...
The success of a pilot project of growing Shan Tuyet tea trees have provides a feasible solution to sustainable poverty-alleviation for ethnic groups in the northern mountainous of Tuyen Quang. The project began in 2000 in Na Hang district, where...
The Central Highlands province of Dak Lak plans to invest VND266.9 billion (near $12.7 million) in improving the ethnic minority’s life in remote areas in 2013. The amount, to be sourced from the national target program on poverty reduction, will be...
Branches of Vinatex Supermarket of the Vietnam National Textile and Garment Corporation and the Kon Tum provincial Border Guard Command presented 200 gifts to ethnic minority people, beneficiaries and needy people in the border commune of Dak Su,...
Vietnam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines) will quit Lach Huyen international port in the northern port city of Haiphong under its restructuring plan, a representative told the Dau Tu newspaper. Accordingly, Vinalines will not join hands with...
Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has approved the extension of the deadline for the Technical Assistance Project for Business Registration Reform in Vietnam to Dec 31, 2013. The project, sponsored by the United Nations Industrial Development...
The Management Authority for Urban Railways (MAUR) in Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City has proposed the municipal People’s Committee seek the government approval to borrow from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for the metro route...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide loans worth $111.88 million to help the country enhance low carbon agriculture development, and strengthen the local government’s capacity to set up and implement ADB-financed projects. Of the amount, $...
