The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho plans to help over 3,000 households rise out of poverty in 2015, bringing the local poverty rate from 2.84% in 2014 to 1.84% this year, the lowest in the region. To achieve this goal, Director of the municipal...
The cultural space of gongs of ethnic minorities in the Truong Son mountain range has been recognized as an important part of human culture, especially for the H’re people in central Quang Ngai province. Preserving and promoting the everlasting...
The Department of Culture, Sports, and Tourism of the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak has been enacting a series of measures to preserve and promote volumes of epics of the Ede people, which are currently in danger of disappearing from the...
The UN Development Program (UNDP), the EU and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have provided $3.9 million worth of non-refundable aid to Vietnam’s green growth programs. This is within the EU-UNDP Low Emission Development...
The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) will provide $3 million in non-refundable aid for the period 2015-2016 to develop an e-learning system at Hanoi Open University and share the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s experience in the field with...
Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi is focusing on medical human resources training and administrative reform to improve the quality of public health services in the 2014-2015 period and onward. The capital city aims to reach the rate of 12.5 doctors...
Vietnam needs approximately $30 billion to implement green growth strategies by 2020, the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) said. Up to 70% of the total figure will come from non-state sector, Pham Hoang Mai, head of MPI’s Department of...
In response to the “Earth Hour” campaign which will take place from 20.30 to 21.30 pm on March 28, a launching ceremony of “Turn off the lights, turn on the ideas 2015? contest and “I ride a bike today” campaign will be held at Laca Coffee in Hanoi...
The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs would ask its provincial agencies to evaluate and restructure vocational schools in order to improve their performance, said Duong Duc Lan, director general of the Vocational Training Directorate....
The Association of Agent Orange Victims of the southernmost province of Ca Mau said it will build 100 houses costing VND15 million each for the victims facing housing difficulties this year. The association will raise cash for the program from...
