Vietnam has reported 30,900 hungry families with 125,400 starving people in Jan, down 53% and 53.4% on year, respectively, said the government’s General Statistics Office (GSO).Most of them are living in the northern mountainous provinces, central...
The Central Highlands province of Kon Tum was urged to enhance its sustainable development to prevent and reduce poverty by speeding up job creation and escape from poverty by 2015.Politburo member and permanent member of the Party Central Committee...
Vietnam News Agency (VNA), the national news agency, has published a pictorial magazine in multiple languages with an aim to boost “national solidarity.”The publication namely Dan Toc & Mien Nui or Nationalities and Mountainous Areas was...
The military-run Viettel Group, one of the leading telecom companies in Vietnam, launched on Jan 29 a customer support service using seven ethnic languages, state media reported.The operator will provide frequently asked questions (FAQs) for free...
The Central Highlands provinces in Vietnam are striving to reduce the percentage of poor households among ethnic minority groups by 3% or more per annum by 2015.According to the Central Highlands Steering Committee, by now, the region has brought...
- The Japanese government will grant $120,000 to a project on expanding a vocational training center for disabled people in Vietnam’s northern province of Bac Giang. The grant is part of an agreement signed in Hanoi on Jan 31 to build more...
Vietnam’s General Statistics Office (GSO) launched on Jan 28 a package to upgrade data for the office in a project costing more than $4 million funded by the World Bank.The contractor named Nec – Mitec will conduct the package which will focus on...
People’s Committee in Vietnam’s central city of Danang has approved a project costing $272 million with 74% funded by the World Bank (WB) to help develop the city sustainably.The five-year project will focus on improving environment in urban areas,...
The Vietnam General Confederation of Labor (VGCL) and German’s Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Vietnam (FES) signed on Jan 29 an agreement to jointly carry out a project to develop trade unions for local industrial workers.Under the deal, the European...
The World Bank’s Boards of Executive Directors approved on Jan 29 a $156-million loan to help Vietnam improve traffic infrastructure in the Mekong Delta, the Ha Noi Moi newspaper reported on Jan 31.This amount is an additional credit for an ongoing...
