Six Agent Orange/Dioxin victims from Vietnam and South Korea will join in a trans-Vietnam cycling tour from November 1-25. The 20-member group will start the ride in HCM City and wind through 1,700 kilometers to Hanoi. During the trip, participants...
An Asia-Pacific conference on reducing child poverty and disparities opened in Hanoi on September 24. The three-day event, organized by The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Ministry of Finance, is being attended by representatives...
The Government has tasked the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs to design budget assistance policy for 24 districts with high poverty rate. The policy must be submitted to the Government before October 15, 2012. According to the...
The National Fund for Vietnamese Children (NFVC) has raised more than VND5 billion to present gifts and scholarships to children during this year’s Mid-Autumn Festival. The money will allow the NFVC to offer 1,070 gifts to disadvantaged children in...
Vietnam has reported 401,400 hungry families in the first nine months of this year, with 1.7 million starveling people, falling by 30.7% and 30.1% on year, respectively, , according to the government’s General Statistics Office (GSO). In Sept, the...
The Vietnamese government has spent a total VND2.86 trillion ($136.19 million) on social security and poverty reduction in the first nine months of this year, as shown in the monthly report by General Statistics Office’s statistics. Of the sum,...
A delegation of the European Union (EU) led by Ambassador to Vietnam Fanz Jessen has visited the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak to gain a better understanding of the life of ethnic minorities, the Radio Voice of Vietnam (VOV) reported. During...
The Command of the Quang Binh provincial Border Guard and the provincial Fatherland Front Committee handed over 22 ‘Great Unity’ houses yesterday to ethnic minority families in Do village, Trong Hoa commune in Quang Binh province. The project was...
The eighth Northeastern Ethnic Group Culture, Sport and Tourism Festival officially began on September 27 with an opening ceremony on the theme ‘Northeastern Vietnam – A Beautiful and Sacred Land’ at Tan Quang Park, Tuyen Quang province. The opening...
The Vietnamese Union of UNESCO Associations has decided to establish the UNESCO Association for the Conservation of Vietnamese Ethnic Culture. The announcement was made at a September 29 meeting in the northern province of Thai Binh. Accordingly,...
