The World Bank has approved a $106 million loan to a project worth $121 million on improving the quality of Vietnam’s health sector, which is being held back by the lack of skilled healthcare workers and medical facilities at grassroots levels. The...
A continuing drought over the past few months in the central province of Phu Yen has resulted in a lack of water for thousands of people living in mountainous areas. Son Dinh commune in the mountainous district of Son Hoa has been hardest hit. Most...
A Mekong Delta project on sustainable rural development and climate change adaptation will start in Ben Tre province later this month, according to Director of the provincial Department of Planning and Investment Nguyen Truc Son. The scheme is a...
Three Australian-funded projects on climate change mitigation and community development have initially proved effective in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang. The view was at a working session between An Giang’s key officials and Wendy Conway...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has allowed the removal of an education reform project from programs to be submitted to the National Assembly in the upcoming session this month due to public discontent. The decision was made following a...
Providing better healthcare services, education and vocational training for Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin victims is one of the key tasks of the Vietnam Friendship Village, which aims to help all members of the society integrate into the wider community...
From May 1, poor households across the country will enjoy a higher loan amount of up to VND50 million ($2,380) instead of the VND30 million (nearly $1,430) issued thus far. According to the new Decision No. 34 issued by Nguyen Van Binh, Governor of...
More than 300 gong artisans from ethnic minority groups across the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong will join a gong culture festival in Lac Duong district on April 29-30. Nguyen Vu Hoang, director of the provincial Culture Centre, said the...
The La Hu ethnic people in the northern province of Lai Chau have recently seen their lives change positively thanks to assistance from the local border guards. The group has a population of more than 6,000, living on high mountain slopes in the...
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a private investment arm of the World Bank (WB), on April 28 said that it will work with a Vietnamese partner to ease micro companies’ access to financial services. Under a recently signed agreement, IFC...
