A ceremony was held in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum on August 8th to mark the 55th year of the Agent Orange calamity in Vietnam (August 10th). Being the first locality sprayed with the toxic chemical by the US troop during the war in...
An international conference on Agent Orange/dioxin opens in Hanoi with the participation of both domestic and foreign scientists, ambassadors, head of international organizations in Vietnam, state media reported. The event, chaired by Vietnamese...
The PM has nodded additional capital for the National Target Program on sustainable poverty reduction in 2016. Accordingly, the program will get over VND73.3 billion of budget in 2016. Ministries, agencies, and localities will get VND 59 billion to...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has okayed to allocate an estimated VND73.3 trillion ($3.3 billion) to poverty reduction programs in 2016, state media reported. The total amount will include VND59 trillion to be spent on agriculture and...
Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh on August 11 granted gifts and scholarships from the National Fund for Vietnamese Children (NFVC) to poor students who have good learning performances in the southern province of Dong Thap. At the event, 50 gifts,...
The PM has issued Decision No. 1573/Q?-TTG approving a project on building new-style rural areas in the ethnic minority and border regions in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien. The project covers a total area of nearly 338,021 hectares...
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has approved a project worth over VND 54 billion to preserve and promote the culture of ethnic minorities during the 2016-2020 period. The project targets the 53 ethnic minorities in Ha Giang, Bac Kan,...
Vietnam has completed a poultry hatchery project which was funded by the World Poultry Foundation and in partnership with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Launched in late 2014, the project’s goal was to improve the husbandry...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will set aside $100 million to help improve business environment for startups and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City in 2018. The information was released at a...
The Hanoi Department of Health is to officially provide its online administrative services through website http://qlhanhnghekcb.gov.vn on August 15th to issue practicing permits for health workers and business licenses to health care stations....
