Vietnam has started conducting a poverty reduction project in the Central Highlands costing $165 million with funding from the World Bank. The five-year project is aimed at raising the living standards in 130 communes of six provinces including Dak...
From 2015 onwards, the measure for poverty will comprise five factors, including living conditions, access to education and health care, access to information, and access to insurance and social assistance, instead of the previous measure of income...
A total of 200 disadvantaged rural households in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai were provided with 30m2 houses on September 14, donated by the Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank (Vietinbank). The total investment was worth more than...
The education sector in the highlands province of Kon Tum has encouraged staffs to voluntarily contribute one-day earnings to buy textbooks for ethnic minority students in the new academic school 2014-2015. Kon Tum Province has around 38,397...
The world football body FIFA has announced a $800,000 grant for the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) to develop the country’s youth football, state media reported. The grant will go to the construction of a performance laboratory equipped with the...
Authorities in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi will issue e-tickets for a bus route costing VND32 billion ($1.52 million) in early October under a project on running smart buses amid overloaded traffic. Hanoi’s Department of Transport will issue 200...
Vietnam has started conducting a poverty reduction project in the Central Highlands costing $165 million with funding from the World Bank. The five-year project is aimed at raising the living standards in 130 communes of six provinces including Dak...
The Vietnamese government has approved the loan portfolio of the Microfinance Development Program (MDP) – subprogram 2, under which the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will finance $50 million. The subprogram aims to help the government build a more...
Vietnam has made great strides in expanding social health insurance coverage, now covering more than half of its population, the World Bank (WB) said in its report launched in Hanoi on September 17. Health insurance dialogue for people with...
Vietnam needs to reverse the trend of becoming an “aged” population, a process which was first recognised in 2011. The country’s population is forecast to be “aged” by 2028-2031, which is sooner than in many developed countries, Deputy Head of the...
