A culture and tourism festival started on May 18 at the Museum of Vietnamese Ethnic Cultures in the northern province of Thai Nguyen. The festival will spotlight the cultural and artistic identities of the northern, central and southern regions of...
Vietnam has spent a total of VND62 trillion on poverty reduction programs in the 2006-2010 period in order to axe poverty rates to 15% in accordance with its new poverty line, the Nhan Dan newspaper reported. The figures are much higher than VND40....
The Vietnamese prime minister has authorized the State Bank of Vietnam, the central bank, to coordinate with ministries and government agencies to negotiate with the World Bank for “Poverty Reduction Support Credit 9 (PRSC9). The SBV’s Deputy...
The prime minister has agreed to advance VND1 trillion in the state budget to localities across the country to develop rural infrastructure this year, the government said on its website. Localities will borrow the money from the Vietnam Development...
Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi will spend VND48 billion ($2.5 million) to build houses for more than 3,600 poor households this year as part of efforts to celebrate the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long - Hanoi. Deputy Head of the municipal...
More than 16,000 poor families in Bac Kan province in northern Vietnam will receive a total of VND6.869 billion in cash from the Vietnamese government in line with Decision 102/2009/QD-Ttg. Bac Kan still remains to be a poor province with 103 out of...
Engineers from Lung Lo Construction Company discovered a 245-kg bomb at the two-meter depth in the 15A highway in the central province of Ha Tinh on May 19. The bomb was left by the U.S. army during the Vietnam War.
The United Nations (UN) has funded more than $4.6 million to a project to improve the capabilities of three Vietnamese provinces and cities in responding to climate change, reducing vulnerability and controlling Green House Gas emissions, state...
The French Development Agency (AFD) has committed to add EUR20 million in loan for Vietnam’s support program to respond to climate change (SP-RCC), the French Embassy to Hanoi said in a statement May 14. Earlier, the Japanese government funded JPY10...
The Hanoi departments of education and training and finance have urged high schools to subsidize poor students’ final exam fees to prevent quitting on financial grounds. High school final exam fees are VND143,000 ($7.5) but students rated as poor...
