More attention should be paid to strengthening the implementation of rehabilitation programs for Agent Orange/Dioxin (AO) victims, urged Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc. The Deputy PM made the request at a conference held in Hanoi yesterday...
Some 14,886 victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin and disabled people remain in need of rehabilitation.The figure was released in a seminar on community rehabilitation for victims of Dioxin, a chemical used by U.S. troops during the Vietnam War, held on...
The French branch of the Vietnam Association for Child Victims of Agent Orange (AO)/Dioxin has held a fundraising concert in Zurich, Switzerland.The Embassy of Vietnam in Switzerland assisted with the event, part of activities celebrating the 30th...
Hanoi will present social policy beneficiaries with nearly VND230 billion ($11,500 million) in the upcoming lunar New Year, the year of the Snake. The city will offer a gift package worth VND500,000 to every Heroic Mother, Hero of the People’s Armed...
Authorities of Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi will spend VND900 billion ($42.86 million) on a sustainable poverty reduction program in the 2013-2015 period.The program will focus on building infrastructure projects for ethnic minorities, expanding...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Construction is seeking the government’s approval to spend an estimated VND19 trillion ($904.76 million) on a program to support housing policies for the poor in the 2011-2015 period. Under the Program 167 of Stage 2, the...
For so long the office of hustlers, sellers and scammers, the sidewalk is quickly becoming a place where students and even State employees turn to earn some extra cash.Every night, Hanoi's sidewalks become packed with a wide range of characters...
A charity ultra-marathon dubbed “Tole to Pole: Vietnam” will commence from Sa Vi Cape, northern province of Quang Ninh on December 9 to raise funds to improve access to clean water for poor communities.Former Australian politician Patrick Farmer and...
The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs has announced a pilot project to implement a social security program for those living on the poverty line in some of the poorer provinces. Under the program, households living on the poverty line,...
The People's Committee of the southern province of Tra Vinh will invest more than VND122 billion ($5.8 million) to build a boarding school for local ethnic minorities in Cau Ngang District.To be completed by 2016, the school will be located on an...
