The Economic-Defence Unit 5 of Military Zone 4 has handed over 61 cows and 100 pigs to 122 poor households in five communes in Muong Lat district, Thanh Hoa Province. The presents are parts of the unit’s VND 1 billion economic-defence development...
A delegation from Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam visited Mexico on Aug 2 to 12 to share experiences in poverty reduction, especially in urban areas, state media reported. The trip is under the framework of a project on supporting multidimensional...
With a target of increasing incomes for 10,000 households, creating an additional 1,000 jobs and helping at least 3,000 households escape from poverty, the Market Access for the Rural Poor Program (MARP) is expected to provide poverty...
Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City has proposed the Ministry of Planning and Investment further support it in mobilizing official development assistance (ODA) for its infrastructure projects. HCM City wants to get support from the...
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has helped more than 5,000 people in Vietnam get access to HIV-related legal assistance services over the past five years, according to a report at a meeting in Hanoi Aug 14 to review the...
The International Labor Organization (ILO) and Vietnam’s Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) co-organized a seminar on August 14 to seek measures to better implement the ILO-Vietnam Decent Work Country Program (DWCP) in the...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has allowed agencies to negotiate with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on a $95 million loan for the Secondary Cities Development Project, the An Ninh Thu Do newspaper reported on Aug 16. An association, led...
Vietnamese health authorities have warned of rising number of malaria infections from African guest workers as 90 Vietnamese laborers have contracted with the disease in the past three months after returning from several African countries. The...
Vietnam has raised warning on the rising risk of infection and emerging diseases recurrence due to climate change and abnormal weather conditions in recent years, said the Department of Preventive Medicine and Environment under the Ministry of...
Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi will build 39 plants for common wastewater treatment in urban centers from now until 2030 in a move to ease environmental pollution. The wastewater treatment plants, part the city’s newly-approved water drainage...
