For 10 years, the Club of Retired Teachers in Sa Dec City in the Mekong province of Dong Thap has looked after their own. Determined to prevent fellow teachers from falling into poverty, in 2007 the club members began offering no-interest loans....
The effective implementation of policies on ethnic groups has helped reduce poverty and improved the living standards of ethnic people in Hanoi. The capital has more than 68,000 ethnic minorities people living across its 30 districts and towns. The...
U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Ted Osius on November 18 announced a wildlife crime reduction project that would receive funding worth $10 million from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The project, implemented from 2016 to 2021,...
Vietnam has achieved targets on sustainable poverty reduction in disadvantaged areas thanks partly to a project funded by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the Ireland Embassy, heard a conference in Hanoi on November 22. The project, which was...
Vietnam’s southern province of Binh Phuoc is implementing campaigns to fight dengue fever and zika virus-related diseases as the number of dengue cases is high. The work focuses on intensifying supervision in the community and raising public...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has recently approved a plan to invest in a core technology in order to produce vaccines while calling for social mobilization in the future. The statement was made in a recent meeting on producing vaccines...
Vietnam may see more Zika cases because community immunity to the mosquito-borne Zika virus is still low, particularly in central, southern and Central Highland provinces. Deputy Director of the health ministry’s Diseases Control Division Nguyen Duc...
The government of Vietnam has issued a decree regulating environmental protection fee charged for the release of wastewater which will take effect from January 1st, 2017, state media reported. According to Decree 154/2016/ND-CP, the fee to be...
As many as 80% of industrial parks (IPs) in Vietnam have violated regulations on environmental protection, state media reported, citing a domestic scholar. Associate Prof. Dinh Duc Truong from Hanoi University of Economics said that few of more than...
Despite repeated warnings and sanctions, the Lam Thao Fertilizers and Chemicals JSC is still discharging substandard waste water into the Red River, causing pollution and harming people’s lives along the river. Lam Thao, operational since June 1962...
