The living standards of residents in Phu Xai Lai Leng Commune, in a mountainous area in Ky Son District, Nghe An Province, have much improved compared to five years ago, thanks to various activities launched by soldiers of the Economic-Military Unit...
The Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group’s Phu Tho chapter on Jan. 15 handed over 53 houses, each worth 20 million VND, for poor households on the occasion of the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival. The northern mid-land province will also earmark...
The central province of Thua Thien – Hue has distributed 1,000 tonnes of rice from the central assistance reserve to families who were affected by flood, poor families and those who are in danger of lacking food in between crop periods. The rice...
Five years after the implementation of the national program on poverty reduction, the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum has seen a rapid poverty reduction with people’s living standard in poor communes remarkably improved. The poor have had...
Authorities in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi have announced its new poverty line for the 2011-2015 period, under which it will be VND750,000/person/month in urban area and VND550,000/person/month in rural area. A rural person, who earns VND551,000...
Ophthalmology doctors from Ho Chi Minh City have provided free eye operations to some 200 disadvantaged patients in the Mekong delta province of Soc Trang. From January 9 to January 10, ophthalmologists from Nguyen Trai Hospital conducted free eye...
Doctors from the Ho Chi Minh City-based Hoa Tam Charity and Cambodia’s Reasmey Kompong Som Clinic have offered free-of-charge medical checkups and medicines for 200 needy Vietnamese people in Preah Siahnouk province. Hoa Tam Charity also donated...
Poverty reduction has been successful in remote mountain regions thanks to National Program 135 which began in 1998. This set a good example for nation’s path to social equality and development. During Vietnam’s industrialization and modernization...
The Ha Noi Fund for Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin Victims was launched today [Jan 14], the state-run Vietnam News Agency said Jan 14. The fund, established by the Municipal Association of AO Victims, is expected to mobilize different sources from both...
Vietnam raised the rate of rural residents using clean water to 83% by end-2010 against 75% in 2008, said the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. More than 84,000 clean water supply systems were put into service nationwide in 2010,...
