The Government on December 26 decided to apply specific policies for 23 poor districts nationwide in order to help them reduce poverty quickly and sustainably.Surveys and statistics show that these districts are mainly the residence of ethnic...
Vietnam has reported 450,300 hungry families this year, with 1.91 million starving people, down 27.6% and 26.9% on year, respectively, said the government’s General Statistics Office (GSO).Most of them are living in northern mountainous provinces,...
The Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) has raised VND1.5 trillion ($71 million) for the poor under the “Day for the Poor” campaign carried out in 2012.The figure was released at a conference in Hanoi on Dec 27 to review the...
The Vietnamese government has spent a total VND8.8 trillion ($419 million) on social security and poverty reduction this year, surging by 174% from a year earlier, said the General Statistics Office.Of the sum, VND1.3 trillion was for assisting...
Almost 200 high school students in Hanoi attended a month-long ‘food project’ to collect enough leftover food from hotels and restaurants for 1,500 rations to donate to poor inpatients in hospitals and other needy people in slums in the city.The...
The Northern Power Corporation under the Electricity of Vietnam (EVN NPC) on December 22 began providing electricity from the national grid to 121 households in Buot village, Tan Xuan commune, Moc Chau district in the northern mountainous province...
The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed three loan agreements totaling $245 million on Dec 21 to help Vietnam improve education, energy supply and natural disaster risk management.Of the sum, $110.19 million will...
South Korea will provide $1.2 billion in official development assistance (ODA) for development projects in Vietnam in the 2012–2015 period under an agreement signed in Hanoi on Dec 21.The agreement was signed by Vietnamese Minister of Planning and...
Sixty-two photos depicting the Mine Advisory Group (MAG)'s activities to clear unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Viet Nam are on display in HCM City.The photos taken by photographers Sean Sutton, Aidan Dockery and Na Son also depict the communities in...
The People’s Army Newspaper (PAN) has recently organized a fact-finding tour for newspaper and television correspondents to disseminate information on the consequences and clearing of bombs, mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) in provinces of the...
