The Mekong Delta provinces of Hau Giang and Ben Tre plan to build nearly 1,000 toilets over the next two years as part of the national program to provide proper sanitary facilities to rural schools. The total investment for these projects, at VND100...
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and provincial governments to take measures to stabilize the domestic rice market.Mr Dung also required the Vietnam Food...
The government of Spain has financed VND2.328 trillion ($125.9 million) to 22 projects to develop rural infrastructure and production in Vietnam’s northern province of Quang Ninh, the Thoi bao Kinh te newspaper reported Thursday. Ten of these...
The People’s Committee of the central Quang Tri province has approved scholarship of VND2.3 billion ($125,000) for students from the Van Kieu and Pa Co ethnic minorities in this school year. The scholarship would be given to students in four...
The International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) of Sweden has assisted VND11 billion ($615,315) to Vietnam’s central province of Quang Nam to build a 75-kW power plant to bring electricity to Cotu ethnic minority people in the locality. The...
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has hailed Vietnam’s poverty reduction program named 135 as it has benefited many poor people in difficult communes of mountainous areas. The second phase of the program 135 slated from 2006 to 2010 has...
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved allocating VND4 trillion ($223 million) for three policy banks to raise their registered capital, the Sai Gon Giai Phong newspaper reported Monday. Of the funding, VND1.012 trillion will be funneled into...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has given a nod to add VND300 billion ($16.8 million) to the national targeted poverty reduction program for next year. Of the funding, VND291.1 billion will go to 62 provinces and cities across the country...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Nov. 26 released a report on new approach to poor Vietnamese children. This new methodology is also part of a cooperation...
Hanoi has built 2,943 houses given to poor families in the last eleven months, accounting for 76.5% of the plan, the Communist Party of Vietnam said on its website. The information was given during a meeting of the steering committee of humanitarian...
