The poverty rate among Hanoian blind people has been dropped to 17.5% as the visually-impaired people in the city have received loans, job training and job offers from the local authority in recent times. The city has given loans worth over VND14...
Vietnam is strongly committed to working with other member states and the United Nations for a comprehensive and implementable post-2015 development agenda aiming to eradicate poverty, achieve inclusive economic growth, promote social development...
Vietnam needs to pay more attention and invest more in poverty reduction and ensuring food security, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Thi Xuan Thu has said. At a meeting held in the Red River Delta province of Thai Binh on...
Up to 106 primary schools are offering lessons on Jrai and Bahnar languages to pupils of ethnic groups as a move to keep them from falling into oblivion. The move, underway since 2008, is in pursuant to the Ministry of Education and Training’s...
New Zealand will continue to provide official development assistance (ODA) for Vietnam in the coming years to assist the Southeast Asian nation in its socio-economic development and poverty eradication, said Prime Minister John Key. PM Key made this...
The European Union (EU) is considering raising official development assistance (ODA) for Vietnam in the next seven years while reducing its ODA planned for other countries, said Ambassador and Head of the EU delegation to Vietnam Franz Jessen....
Leading vaccine manufacturers from developing countries are participating in a meeting in Hanoi to share experience in vaccine production and management, state media reported. The 14th annual meeting of the Developing Countries Vaccine Manufacturers...
Nearly 3.2 million children aged below five in Vietnam are now undernourished, accounting for 42.1% of the country’s total 7.6 million kids, said Dr. Trinh Hong Son from the National Institute of Nutrition. Among those, more than two million...
The annual ASEAN Regional Disaster Emergency Response Simulation Exercise (ARDEX) is scheduled to take place in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi on Oct 19-24, state media reported. Local authorities have urged concerned agencies to prepare for the...
Vietnam targets to handle all facilities causing severe environmental pollution from now to 2020, under a government’s newly-approved plan. Under the scheme, the country will deal with 222 firms seriously polluting the environment in the 2016-2020...
