Prudential Vietnam Life Insurance Company has launched the Voluntary Campaign 2010 between October and November at 19 provinces and cities nationwide. The campaign, “Live Green-Live Healthy”, started in Hanoi with a series of social activities for...
Social Policy Bank in Vietnam’s southern province of Binh Phuoc has lent a total of VND600 billion ($30.77 million) for the poor people since 2006. The move is aimed to help the locals to have capital to invest in production for better life, the Van...
Together with other provinces of Lao Cai, Lai Chau, Dak Lak and Dak Nong, Dien Bien has actively engaged in a poverty reduction programme funded by the European Committee and Danish CARE organization. The four-year project is worth nearly 1 million...
The Fund for The poor of the central province of Quang Tri has mobilized more than VND 89.5 billion, helped build 6,558 houses for the poor over the past several years. The fund has also repaired 1,506 houses and constructed 3,396 ones for the poor...
Social Policy Bank in Vietnam’s southern city of Can Tho has disbursed a total of nearly VND900 billion ($46.15 million) for the poor people in the first ten months of this year. The move is aimed to support locals to invest in production for...
Ho Chi Minh City Eye Hospital performed free-of-charge operations for more than 100 poor cataract patients in the central province of Quang Ngai’s Duc Pho district on Nov 4. Under the charitable program, up to 150 another patients in the district...
Vietnam’s central province of Quang Nam put into operation on Nov. 3 a $2-million peace village with the funding from the Korean Victims of Agent Orange Veterans Association (KAOVA), state media reported. The village which covers 2.6 hectares in Phu...
The U.S. Government, through its Agency for International Development (USAID), has announced a new project worth $11.7 million to continue assisting Vietnam to enhance trade and integration into the global economy. The three-year project, lasting...
Dengue fever has claimed 59 lives out of more than 80,000 affected people in provinces and cities across Vietnam since early this year, the Ministry of Health said. The southern region tops the nation with over 43,844 patients, down 26% on-year,...
Many hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City have failed to build medical wastewater treatment systems or have substandard ones despite years of operation, Deputy Head of the municipal Department of Natural Resources and Environment Nguyen Van Phuoc said. As...
