Authorities of the central highlands province of Kon Tum have spent VND710 billion to support 34,860 households of ethnic minorities to resettle since 1998. The local authorities also subsidized 50% of the bank loans for them to grow rubber plants...
Rural Development Centre (RUDEC) under Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development and Institute for Studies of Society, Economy and Environment (iSEE) organized a seminar on land, culture, life and social issues of ethnic...
The central city of Danang Fatherland Front has mobilized VND50 billion ($2.6 million) to the Fund for the poor over the past ten years, Nguyen Dang Hai, deputy head of the Vietnam Fatherland Front in the city said. In 2009 alone, the city mobilized...
Two non-governmental organizations, Bread for the World and Agricultural Development Denmark Asia (ADDA), have pledged to fund $14.4 million for poverty reduction projects in Vietnam from now to 2014. Representatives of the two NGOs and President of...
The new poverty line for the 2011-2015 period has been submitted to the government of Vietnam, the Ministry of Planning and Investment said at a conference on orientations for poverty reduction programs which was held by the Ministry of Labor and...
Peter Chaudry, a representative of the United Nations (UN) in Vietnam, urged the country to build a poverty reduction program for the 2011-2020 period at a conference in Hanoi on May 25, the government said on its website. The program must be...
Ford Foundation in Vietnam has donated $174,000 to a project to help Agent Orange/dioxin victims and disabled people in the central province of Binh Dinh. The funding, to be offered through the Vietnam Assistance for the Handicapped (VNAH), will...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Health is piloting a project of first-aid clinics along four highways to reduce the rate of fatality caused by traffic accidents. The project aims to provide timely aid to victims of traffic accidents along the highways of...
Vietnam is facing a severe shortage of medical stations to offer medical check-ups and treatment to workers suffering from occupational diseases, the state-run Vietnam News Agency reported. The clinics for workers have been set up in 24 out of 63...
Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung has approved the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) to negotiate with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for soft loans for the health human resources development project. The central bank will set up a team...
