Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City, the most populous city of Vietnam, spent VND118 billion ($5.62 million) on poverty reduction activities last year, said the city’s Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF). The VFF released the figure at a ceremony on April 2...
Over 1,000 poor ethnic minority households were supported with total amount of 13.1 billion VND, under Decision 74/2008/Q?-TTg of the Prime Minister on implementing supporting policies on job creation for poor ethnic minority households in Can Tho....
Rapid modernization and modern lifestyles are threatening the survival of the ancient Cham culture and other ethnic traditions in central Quang Nam Province, home to two UNESCO world heritage sites and a world biosphere reserve. The subject was the...
This year's Culture Day of Vietnamese Ethnic Groups will feature cultural activities to celebrate Vietnamese Family Year 2013 and the solidarity of 54 ethnic groups of the country. The three-day festival will focus around the theme of the Youth of...
The World Bank (WB) on March 29 approved an additional grant of $6.5 million for the Coastal Resources for Sustainable Development Project (CRSD) in Vietnam. The credit comes from the Global Environment Facility (GEF), a trust fund managed by the WB...
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has opened courses and seminars on policy analysis and legislative research to train and boost capacity of legislators of Vietnam’s National Assembly (NA). Over the past 18 months, the agency...
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved the negotiation results and contents of a loan agreement, a grant agreement and related documents of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) supplemented credit package for the southern coastal corridor project....
The Mobile UXO Clearance Team, under the Peace Trees Vietnam Organization, has defused 619 unexploded ordnances (UXOs), said the Quang Tri Provincial Command on March 25th. Earlier, on March 23rd, local people discovered three shells on a pine hill...
Vietnam will release a map of bomb and mine pollution this year to speed up the progress and raise efficiency of bomb and mine removal, said a representative of the Vietnam Bomb and Mine Action Center under the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social...
Vietnam will need around VND14 trillion ($700 million) for bomb and mine clearance by 2025, said Deputy Minister of Lab our, Invalids and Social Affairs Bui Hong Linh. An estimated 800,000 tons of unexploded ordinance is has been left in the country...
