Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development has stressed that drought prevention is an urgent task in the time ahead as severe and large-scale drought is forecast for 2015. During his recent working session with the Directorate of Water Resources...
A mangrove forest project in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang’s coastal areas has helped improve the environment and preserve the biodiversity. Jointly implemented by the Soc Trang Red Cross society, the Vietnam Red Cross’s southern office and...
The government of Japan has pledged to provide $214,000 in non-refundable for two education projects in Vietnam next year. The first project aims to increase the capacity of natural calamity mitigation education in the central province of Quang Nam...
The Vietnam Red Cross (VRC) on December 15th held a press conference on the movement “Tet for poor people and Agent Orange (AO) victims”, aiming to collect millions of presents to be given to disadvantaged people. According to Tran Thi Hong An, VRC...
Nearly 10,000 pieces of unexploded ordnances (UXOs) in the northern province of Yen Bai were defused safely during a three-month campaign. The campaign conducted in line with the order of the Chairman of the People’s Committee of Yen Bai. The...
The Republic of Korea (RoK) will supply official development assistance (ODA) for eradicating unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Vietnam, the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) said. Specialists from South Korea will join hands with Vietnam to...
As many as 144 cows were given to poor ethnic minority households in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang on December 18-20. The gifts were presented under the program “Breeding cows for the poor in border areas”, initiated by the State...
Living standards of ethnic minority groups in the Central Highlands region is being improved gradually thanks to assistance from businesses and the authorities. VinGroup, one of the leading firms in Vietnam , donated 5,000 breeding cows to poor...
The Red Cross Societies of the US, France and Vietnam have reached a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on launching a project on community-based management of disaster risks in Vietnam’s north-western ethnic minority regions. Under the MoU signed in...
A report named “The Vulnerability Report: Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Sub-region”, a first of its kind regional study was launched by World Vision with the support by a leading UK research university through interview of nearly 10,000...
