On December 26, Vietnam’s Binh Duong Provincial Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs held a signing ceremony of a contract to assign provincial budget capital to Provincial Bank for Social Policies granting preferential loans to the...
The National Office for Poverty Reduction has reported a multidimensional poverty rate of 2.93% at the end of 2023, indicating a 1.1 percentage point decrease.
Poverty rate in impoverished districts went down by 5.62 percentage points to...
The rates of stunting and underweight among children aged under five in ethnic groups in Vietnam remain at 31.4% and 21% respectively, according to the National Institute of Nutrition.
Speaking at a conference held on December 26 to call for...
The World Bank (WB) has canceled its $10-million funding for two investment contracts under a sustainable environmental project in Khanh Hoa province’s Nha Trang City, part of the Coastal Cities Sustainable Environment Project (CCSEP) funded by the...
With funding mostly from the South Korean government, the Asian Forest Cooperation Organization (AFoCO) has so far financed Vietnam $4.5 million for its forestry projects, an official has said.
Vietnamese Minister of Agriculture and Rural...
President of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organizations (VUFO) Phan Anh Son lauded contributions of foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to Vietnam’s development in 2023, at a meeting in Hanoi on December 26.
On behalf of Vietnamese...
Vietnam’s total fertility rate in 2023 is likely to have been 1.95 children per woman, which decreased from 2.01 children/woman in 2022 and not meeting the year’s plan at 2.1, according to the General Office for Population and Family Planning, under...
Vietnam is estimated to have recorded more than 163,900 dengue fever cases (with 41 deaths) and 170,200 hand-foot-mouth cases (with 31 deaths) in 2023, according to the latest figures of the government-run General Statistics Office (GSO).
This year...
Vietnam’s northern province of Bac Giang strives to overcome shortcomings and limitations, improves the quality of management and utilization of rural clean water supply projects in the area to meet the needs of people.
The Provincial Department of...
Air quality is getting worse in Hanoi City, with the Air Quality Index (AQI) falling to very poor or even hazardous levels.
Data collected from various monitoring stations in the city reflect this alarming trend. At around 7 a.m. on November 28, the...
