Economic-National Defense Unit 5 of Military Zone 4 has offered 161 cows and 100 pigs, valued at VND 1 billion, which have been handed over to needy families in 5 communes in Muong Lat district, Thanh Hoa province. The money came from the State’s...
The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has asked the World Bank (WB) to maintain its official development assistance (ODA) loans for poverty reduction and social welfare in Vietnam in the years to come. Minister Dinh Tien Dung made the call at a reception...
Japan’s International Manpower Development Organization (IM Japan) has earmarked JPY15 million ($155,000) to provide a vocational training program for poor youths in Vietnam. Under an agreement signed by the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids Social...
Fifty five new boarding schools have been built for ethnic minority students in the Central Highlands, according to the Steering Committee for the Central Highlands region. Dak Lak Province has the highest number of such schools in the region — 15...
The Central Highlands provinces have so far built 55 new boarding schools for children from ethnic minority groups to pursue study. The schools include five at the provincial level and 50 at the district level, and Dak Lak and Gia Lai lead others in...
The Japan International cooperation Agency (JICA) is funding a 4.1 billion VND ($195,000) project to help farmers in central Quang Nam province improve their income from vegetable production in the 2013-2016 period. According to the project,...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has agreed to lend Vietnam $410 million to build sections of the second arterial highway connecting Ho Chi Minh City to the Mekong Delta and southern coastal regions. The Central Mekong Delta Region Connectivity...
Police in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi Aug 7 decided to investigate a case of duplicating 1,000 blood test results for different patients at a local hospital after a letter of denunciation from a hospital staff, state media reported. The test...
Ho Chi Minh City, the most populous city of Vietnam, has set a target to provide safe water to 92% of its population by 2015, an increase from the current 87.27%, according to the Saigon Water Company (Sawaco). To reach the goal, Sawaco, the main...
The prime minister has ratified the National Strategy for Biodiversity Conservation in Vietnam from now to 2020, a vision to 2030, in a move to boost bio-diversification amid rising degradation. Under the strategy, Vietnam aims to preserve the...
