Prenatal diagnosis measures for Agent Orange/dioxin victims should receive more investment to minimize the number of babies born with deformities, experts said at a conference to tackle the issue in dioxin-contaminated hotspots on Jan 11.According...
As many as 3,800 woolen blankets will soon be handed over to poor residents in 17 northern provinces which are being hit by the first strong cold spell in 2013, according to the Vietnam Red Cross (VRC).Four mountainous provinces of Cao Bang, Ha...
The People's Committee of the Central Highlands province of Tay Ninh has decided to spend more than VND54 billion to support policy beneficiary families, the elderly, workers, civil servants and poor and near the poverty line households, during the...
A HCM City district that was thought to be relatively poor has sprung a surprise by announcing that it no longer has poor people.The Government has set the poverty threshold at VND12 million ($571) per year per capita, and District 6 has become the...
The Sponsor Association for Poor Patients has just given 400 health insurance cards to poor people in Districts 3 and 4 in Ho Chi Minh City, with added help from banks and benefactors.To help poor households overcome difficulties, the People’s...
A program providing free birth control services will continue to target populations in remote and underprivileged areas, especially ethnic minority groups and industrial park workers.The information was informed by head of Marie Stopes International...
The Ho Chi Minh City authorities have launched a large project to help reduction of in urban areas in the city from now until 2016.In ceremony to kick off the project, the People’s committee said the project will be implemented with a cost of $2...
The central city of Danang has earmarked more than VND1,000 billion for a poverty reduction project over the 2013–2017 period.The city wants the project to raise all disadvantaged households beyond the special poor classification by 2016.To achieve...
Corps 5, under Military Zone 4, launched and handed over a kindergarten to Can Hamlet, Tam Chung Commune, Muong Lat District, Thanh Hoa Province on January 9th.The cost of VND420 million for construction and equipment was financed by the unit. Once...
Local governments in the southwestern region have done well to raise Khmer people’s living standards, said the Southwestern Region Steering Committee at a meeting in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on January 9 to review achievements in 2012 and...
