The rate of poor ethnic minority households in Vietnam’s central highlands province of Lam Dong has fallen to 18%, down 32% from the period of 2001-2005. The figure was released at a meeting in Da Lat City on August 30 to review the 10-year...
Although Vietnam has gained many achievements in poverty reduction, greater efforts are needed to ensure the benefit of vulnerable groups and sustainable development, said a UN expert during an official visit to Vietnam. Magdalena Sepulveda, an...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) aims to enroll 1.7 million students in vocational training schools in the 2010-2011 school year. The country is now home to more than 2,000 vocational training establishments...
The New Zealand Embassy in Vietnam has funded $15,000 to an education project for disabled children in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi, state media reported Aug 24. The project will be carried out in 29 primary schools in Hanoi’s Thuong Tin district...
Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan has approved establishment of Hanoi University of Natural Resources and Environment with the aim to train the country’s skilled workforce in the field. The university, which is set up on the...
French professor Odon Vallet on August 26 presented 219 scholarships worth VND1.1 billion ($56,410) to outstanding poor students and pupils from Vietnam’s five south central cities and provinces. The scholarships, each worth VND7.5 million, were...
The German Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the German Reconstruction Bank (KFW) have pledged to fund a combined of $7 million for a project to cope with climate change in Vietnam and Laos in next four years, a KFW senior official...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Health is seeking the government’s approval to impose fines ranging from VND500,000 to VND20 million on people who violate regulations on health insurance payment, the Dat Viet newspaper reported Aug 27. Employers will be...
Vietnam Development Bank (VDB) and the German Reconstruction Bank will fund a combined of VND520 billion ($26.67 million) for upgrading Hanoi-based Vietnam-Germany Hospital. The VND550-billion upgrading project comprises of VND400 billion from the...
Vietnam has reported more than 20,200 people suffering from malaria so far this year, including 6 deaths, a recent report by the National Institute of Malariology, Parasitology and Entomology showed.The country’s number of malaria patients reduced 3...
