The Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) province of Kon Tum spent nearly VND2.7 billion ($125,000) in the third quarter of this year to help ethnic minority households in nine remote districts including Kon Ray and Sa Thay pay their power bills. (Vietnam...
Company 75 under Army Corps 15 has provided free food and healthcare treatment for ethnic minority groups in two border districts of Duc Co and Ia Grai in Gia Lai Province. Accordingly, each household facing adversity during the crop cycle was...
- A ceremony awarding Hessen scholarships to 66 outstanding students from Hanoi and neighboring provinces was held at Van Mieu (Temple of Literature) in Hanoi on October 5. Similar ceremonies presenting scholarships to outstanding students in Thai...
Vietnam’s government has approved a project with an investment of $84 million, with $74 million to be funded by the Asia Development Bank (ADB), which aims to reduce pollution generated by agricultural wastes, especially from livestock. The Low...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved two projects on gender equality and women’s role in coping with climate change costing a total of $3.7 million as granted by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a list of seven projects costing a total of $10.15 million funded by the United Nations Development Programs (UNDP) to help the country reform its administrative system. The projects will focus...
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has continued a program in one of Vietnam’s most popular tourist attractions to boost the use of condoms in the country in efforts to raise people’s awareness of this contraceptive in protecting...
A consortium between South Korea’s Keangnam and Vietnam’s Civil Engineering Construction Corp. 4 has won a VND1.59 trillion ($76.7 million) package of a project to build a road connecting Noi Bai International Airport to Nhat Tan Bridge. Under the...
Sappers of Brigade 25, under the Military Zone 9, have successfully defused 10 tons of bombs and mines at a safe site. Since the beginning of 2012, the unit has detected and defused over 36 tons of unexploded ordnance, including 50 bombs, from 125...
The Sri Lanka-Vietnam Friendship Foundation has launched a charity program to raise funds to provide medicines and wheelchairs for Vietnamese Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin victims. The event was a declaration of solidarity towards the Vietnamese people,...
