Up to 17 million Vietnamese laborers are living under the poverty line with an income of below $2 per day, according to the International Labor Organization (ILO). Besides, 23 million others are living near the poverty line and easy to fall back...
Party and State policies and investments have brought remarkable changes, especially in infrastructure, in mountainous and ethnic group-inhabited areas. The view was heard at a workshop reviewing State budget allocations to mountainous and ethnic...
The implementation of a strategy on ethnic affairs until 2020 was launched at a national conference in Hanoi on December 29, during which, ministries, agencies and localities across the country were assigned with key tasks to realise the set goals....
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has agreed to lend a total of $447 million for two transport projects in Vietnam under two agreements signed in Hanoi on Dec 24. The two agreements were signed by Vietnamese Deputy of Finance Truong...
Many hospitals in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi will install cameras to monitor the performance of health workers in emergency aid and health check-up areas, as part of efforts to improve medical service quality. The move came after a number of...
Vietnam’s health insurance fund is likely to face a VND9.8 trillion ($464.5 million) overspending next year due to higher healthcare fees, said Le Van Phuc from the Vietnam Social Insurance Agency. Mr. Phuc released the figure at a meeting in Ho Chi...
Thousands of households in the capital lack water due to poorly constructed pipelines. The underground pipeline supplying water from the Da River in Hoa Binh Province to Hanoi broke four times in the past two years, forcing about 70,000 households...
Vietnam and the World Bank’s Carbon Partnership Facility (CPF) on Dec 20 signed the first emission reductions purchase agreement for renewable energy development. Under the pact, the CPF will purchase carbon credits generated by the WB-funded...
Vietnam has lost an estimated VND30 trillion ($1.42 billion) to natural disasters this year, doubling the figure of 2012, the government’s General Statistics Office (GSO) said in its report. During the year, 15 fierce storms hitting Vietnam left 313...
Chief Representative of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Vietnam Lotta Sylwander has hailed Vietnam for its successful universalisation of primary education. However, the country’s primary school completion rate is 92%, not quite all yet. The...
