The State Bank of Vietnam and the World Bank on April 24 signed an agreement to fund a combined of $390 million for poverty reduction projects in the Southeast Asian country, the bank said. This is within the $1.5-billion amount which the bank would...
Vietnam said that it spent an estimated VND864 trillion ($41.14 billion) on fighting against poverty during 2005-2012, according to the statistics released at an online government meeting on April 23. The programs over the years have benefited 531,...
The implementation of policies and laws on poverty reduction for ethnic minority people in the 2005-2012 period was the focus of the National Assembly’s Council for Ethnic Minority Affairs and Committee for Social Affairs when they held a review...
The Maries Stopes International will contribute $15 million to provide sexual reproductive healthcare services and family-planning products and services to Vietnam. The services are expected to help create 5.5 million CYPs (Couple Years of...
The National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology will conduct a study on the 2013-2014 measles outbreak after 3,481 patients in 61 out of 63 cities and provinces in Vietnam were confirmed to have the disease, of which 125 reportedly died. The...
Vietnam needs to have a comprehensive, unified set of rules to control water pollution in the country, because the problem has assumed very serious proportions, experts and officials said at workshop on April 17. ‘We now have several regulations...
More than 377,000 people in the Mekong delta face a fresh water shortage because of saline water intrusion in the area, according to the National Centre for Rural Clean Water Supply and Environmental Sanitation. The price for fresh clean water has...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has requested the Ministry of Health to take urgent measures to soon control measles epidemic which has infected 3,569 people over the past four months, of whom at least 119 died. The number of infected...
Vietnamese Minister of Education and Training Pham Vu Luan denied on April 20 that his ministry has proposed VND34 trillion ($1.6 billion) for the textbooks and curriculum reform, a project that has met strong public criticism for wasting resource....
Military personnel in the northern province of Yen Bai successfully defused two bombs in Van Yen District on April 16. The bombs, weighing 450kg and 340kg, are believed to have been dropped by U.S. troops between 1968 and 1970. They were discovered...
