Preferential loans from a bank for the poor have proved their efficiency when helping poor people, particularly those belonging to ethnic minority groups, in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong escape from poverty. Director of the Vietnam...
The Government’s Program 135, which aims to improve living conditions for rural residents with a particular focus on ethnic minority communities, has proven effective in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai. The province has spent over VND1...
Experts on ethnic affairs, media agency leaders and reporters attended a conference organized by the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) in Hanoi on September 24 to discuss measures to enhance the efficiency of VNA’s efforts to bring news to ethnic minority...
The UK government is willing to lend $500 million to urban railway No. 3 in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi, Ambassador Giles Lever said at a meeting with Nguyen The Thao, chairman of the municipal People’s Committee on Sept 22. Mr. Lever noted that...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has to date provided $630 million in financial support for Vietnam to help the country pilot restructuring some state-owned enterprises (SOEs) over the past ten years. The restructuring of SOEs aims to help Vietnam...
A conference in Hanoi on Sept 24 was told that 13% of deaths among children under five in Vietnam are caused by diarrhoea. The World Health Organization was quoted as saying that diarrhoeal disease was the second leading cause of death among under-...
The Ministry of Health’s Preventive Health Department released a warning about the spread of pinkeye in some northern areas, especially Hanoi, over the past two weeks, affecting thousands of people. Just at the Central Eye Hospital, the Hanoi Eye...
Doctors in Ho Chi Minh City have confirmed that an eight-month old baby has died of Hand, Foot and Mouth disease (HFMD), the first death from HFMD in the city this year. The deceased baby, Tran Bao Chau, from the city’s Tan Phu District, came down...
The Netherlands will help build planning on water resources in Vietnam after the two sides inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the 2020-2030 period and vision towards 2050. Signed during the visit given to The Hague by Vietnamese Deputy...
Environmental pollution in Vietnam has caused damages equal to 5.5% of gross domestic product (GDP) annually, experts said at a campaign to mitigate environment pollution in Hanoi on Sept 24 under the support of Australian embassy in Hanoi. In...
