The Vu A Dinh Scholarship Fund of the HCM Communist Youth Union has signed agreements with schools and enterprises to assist poor and ethnic minority students nationwide. Projects that have been carried out in the last 15 years by the fund include...
Vu A Dinh scholarship fund has been honored with the Labor Order, first class, for its support to ethnic minority students across the country.Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan presented the accolade to Truong My Hoa, Chairwoman of the fund at a...
Vietnam may request government senior officials including deputy ministers, heads of general departments, and heads of ministerial-level bureaus to be able to speak at least one foreign language, according to a draft regulation by the Ministry of...
The first meeting of the Experts’ Working Group (EWG) on Humanitarian Mine Actions, under the cooperative framework of the ASEAN Defense Ministers’ Meeting (ADMM+) Plus, will take place in Hanoi from June 17-20. The information was unveiled by...
The PM has signed a decision to reduce lending interest rates for policy credit programs at the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP). Accordingly, lending interest rates for poor households, guest workers, students and pupils are 7.2% per year (...
A program raising money to buy bicycles for children from disadvantaged backgrounds was launched in the central city of Danang on June 13. The AIA Life Insurance Vietnam Company granted 50 bicycles, each worth 1.7 million VND, to poor children in...
A three-day conference opened in Thai Nguyen province to discuss approaches and solutions to poverty reduction amongst ethnic minority groups in northern Vietnam. The conference, themed “Sustainable Development and Ethnic Minority Poverty Reduction...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health will conduct Japanese encephalitis B vaccination for children under three years old throughout the country in 2014, after an increasing number of encephalitis patients were reported. This was the first time the National...
Ho Chi Minh City has intensified various activities to target 99% of newborn babies of HIV-infected pregnant mothers with ARV treatment to be enjoyed preventive treatment. The treatment is designed to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission in 2014...
Ho Chi Minh City has intensified various activities to target 99% of newborn babies of HIV-infected pregnant mothers with ARV treatment to be enjoyed preventive treatment. The treatment is designed to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission in 2014...
