Authorities in Vietnam’s central province of Ninh Thuan has recently opened a new secondary school costing VND3 billion ($157,894) funded by Mekong Housing Bank (MHB). The Ngo Quyen Secondary School, which is located on a 518.33-sq.m area in Bac Ai...
Center for Rural Water Supply and Environmental Sanitation of Vietnam’s southern province of Bac Lieu has operated 13 water treatment systems for more than 4,000 ethnic households since 2007. These water stations have been built in Bac Lieu...
Authorities of Quang Tri province in central Vietnam plans to build houses for more than 2,000 poor households with total investment of between VND6 million and VND7 million each this year. In addition, the Bank for Social Policies has pledged...
The Vietnam Challenge Fund (VNCF) has effectively assisted the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, hunger eradication and poverty reduction in rural and remote areas, the Communist Party of Vietnam said on its website June 5. Chairman...
The Vietnamese government is calling on the World Bank (WB) to increase its funding for the 9th Poverty Reduction Support Credit (PRSC-9) to $250 million from the current $150 million. Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung has assigned the State...
The Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology (MESCT) and the Academy of Political and Administrative Science Ho Chi Minh of Vietnam will cooperate in several areas of scientific knowledge in order to eradicate poverty and famine....
An exhibition will be held at the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City June 5 to show the lingering pains and difficult living conditions of Agent Orange/dioxin victims in Vietnam, the Communist Party of Vietnam said on its website May 31. The...
Authorities in Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City have approved a plan to build a center for bringing up and providing vocational training for AO/dioxin victims in the city. The municipal Department of Labor, War Invalids and...
The Vietnam’s central city of Danang has raised more than VND2.5 billion ($131,600) from a charitable program to help AO/dioxin victims, the Hanoi Noi online newspaper reported June 4. The program named “Joining Hands for AO Pain”, was jointly held...
Agent Orange, the deadly herbicide that the US Army used in Vietnam from 1961 to 1971 to destroy the country’s thick canopy of foliage, which provided cover for Vietnamese troops, has been listed as one of the 50 worst inventions of all time by the...
