General News

  • Dear Members and Friends: Welcome to the VUFO-NGO Resource Centre Newsletter for 1 – 15 April 2023. There is one working group meeting scheduled for the first half of April 2023: Disability Working Group Regular meeting, on Tuesday, April 4, 2023...
    Friday, 31st March, 2023
  • It’s difficult, looking at the serene park that now welcomes you to Bien Hoa Air Base, to imagine it half a century ago: the constant roar of the war planes overhead, the lines of hangars and barracks stretching for miles, next to mounds of metal...
    Monday, 27th March, 2023
  • By all accounts, Vietnam’s poverty reduction is a staggering achievement. Extreme poverty fell from 49% in 1992 to about 4% in 2021, and according to the new multidimensional poverty (MDP) index, multidimensional poverty is now close to 9%. Vietnam...
    Monday, 27th March, 2023
  • With the amended Law on Land expected to be reviewed and approved this year, experts have been voicing their opinions and discussing measures to protect the land use rights of ethnic minorities. According to the latest survey on the socio-economic...
    Monday, 27th March, 2023
  • The Central Highlands’ province of Lam Dong is home to four brocade weaving villages of local ethnic minority people. In a bid to preserve the traditional cultural identity of the K’Ho people, artisans in Ka Tung village, Dam Rong district, are...
    Monday, 27th March, 2023
  • On March 23, Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Labor, War Invalids, and Social Affairs Nguyen Thi Ha worked with CEO of the UK-based international non-governmental organization (NGO) Care for Children (CFC) Robert Glover OBE in the fields of supporting...
    Monday, 27th March, 2023
  • Vietnam’s Ministry of Health (MoH) has issued a document on disease prevention and control in 2023, warning that illnesses such as dengue and hand, foot and mouth disease could be on the rise. Signed into effect by deputy health minister Nguyen Thi...
    Monday, 27th March, 2023
  • Vietnam’s water demand is likely to reach about 122 billion cu.m each year from 2030, 1.5 times higher than the current amount, which means water shortage may become severe if the country fails to effectively manage the resources, said Deputy...
    Monday, 27th March, 2023
  • Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister cum Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha presented several proposals for water management while attending a UN Plenary Session in New York on March 22, state media reported. The meeting was part...
    Monday, 27th March, 2023
  • The Sustainable Forest Management and Biodiversity Conservation (VFBC) project funded by the USAID, Re:wild organization, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) have co-held a workshop to support Vietnam to issue a plan for...
    Monday, 27th March, 2023