The U.S. is willing to help Vietnam develop its nuclear facilities, but not enriching uranium, Ambassador Glyn Davies, Washington's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a press conference in Hanoi Dec 8.“Our government...
The UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) has pledged to boost gender equality in Vietnam to help the country achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, said an UN official at a conference in Hanoi Dec 8. The organization targets to raise...
Ten new houses, ten breeding cow and ten gifts have been presented to households in six ethnic minority villages in the border commune of Dac Nhoong, Dac Glay district, Kon Tum Central Highland province. The General Staff and the Border Gate...
A charity music performance to raise money for the poor in the upcoming lunar New Year holiday (Tet) will take place at the Ho Chi Minh City Opera House on December 10. The concert is jointly organized by the Sai Gon Giai Phong (SGGP) Newspaper and...
50 poor children from 6 remote communes in the southern province of An Giang received bicycles and studying tools, worth more than 50 million VND, from the National Fund for Vietnamese Children and the Military Bank. There are now around 1,000...
The Viettel Group has donated VND400 million to provide free-of-charge eye surgery for poor people in two central provinces of Ha Tinh and Thanh Hoa. Doctors from the Vietnam National Institute of Ophthalmology (VNIO) have conducted 200 eye...
The Vietnamese Fatherland Front in the central city of Danang has received more than VND520 billion ($26.6 million) from organizations and individuals to help poor people in the past ten years. The fund has been used to build and repair nearly 10,...
Saigon Co.op, operator of the Co.opMart supermarket chain, on Dec 7 awarded 150 scholarships worth VND5 million each to poor students nationwide. Students who received the scholarships will be given the opportunity to work for Saigon Co.op after...
The U.S. government has approved to grant $17 million to rid Vietnam’s central airport of Danang of Agent Orange, state media reported, citing an official. This is under the $70 million funding project which the U.S. government approved for Vietnam...
A photo exhibition of Vietnamese disabled teenagers who are victims of Agent Orange opened in a gallery of the Maison du Vietnam (House of Vietnam) in Paris on Dec 6. The exhibition, the first of its kind, titled “Our Life and Dreams” gathered...
