Since the beginning of the year, the poor patients’ sponsor association of the southern province of Kien Giang has encouraged organizations and individuals to donate VND85 billion to support poor patients’ medical treatment, bringing the total...
Vietnam JS Bank for Industry and Trade or Vietinbank pledged to grant VND50 billion to build houses for poor people and VND15 billion to rebuild Lung Cu flagpole in the northern province of Ha Giang next year. In 2009, the lender donated VND45.5...
Provinces and cities across Vietnam reported 676,500 families with more than 2.9 million people suffering from hunger this year, the government’s General Statistics Office (GSO) said Thursday. The number of hungry households and people dropped 29.4...
Some 10,000 households in 127 ethnic minority villages in the central highlands province of Gia Lai have just had access to the national electricity grid. This was made possible through the VND357 billion ($20 million) electricity supply project...
The State Bank of Vietnam yesterday signed an agreement with the World Bank for a $500 million loan, sourced from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), to support local economic stimulus and public investment reform. The...
Hanoi-based National Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology began December 29 to build a new treatment area that costs VND200 billion ($10.8 million). Deputy Director of the hospital Tran Quoc Viet said that 70% of the total investment came from bank...
Dengue fever has hit 41 provinces and cities in Vietnam with 81 deaths this year, down 8.98% from a year earlier, the Nhan Dan newspaper reported, citing the Ministry of Health. The epidemic has affected 93,339 people during the period, up 1.7% on...
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) pledges to continue helping Vietnam carry out projects to improve the population’s quality of life and to meet the nation’s socio-economic growth targets. Assistant to the UNFPA Chief Representative Tran...
Incomex Saigon Group and Phuong Nam Long JSC have approved the construction of a water plant that costs VND244 billion ($13.2 million) in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre. The plant, which is scheduled to start building next April, will have a...
The French Development Agency (AFD) and the European Union (EU) have financed EUR35 million for clean water supply and environment projects in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta provinces and cities. The AFD has funded EUR32 million to a project to provide...
