The Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRC) has set a target to mobilize VND100 billion ($4.8 million) for Agent Orange (AO) victims during this year’s Action Month for AO Victims, which will run from August 10 to September 10. The month will begin on...
The U.S. on Aug 9 started a $41-million project in Vietnam’s central city of Danang, marking Washington’s first involvement in cleaning up dioxin residue left in the Vietnam War, the Thanh Nien newspaper reported on Aug 9. Conducted by the...
A 230kg wartime bomb was successfully defused by the provincial Military Command after it was found on Thursday in Vinh City's Hung Hoa Commune in the north central province of Nghe An. The 1.7 meter bomb, identified as a US-made device, was found...
Japan will provide $122,936 to support victims of bombs and mines in Quang Tri province. The project was signed on August 10th at the Embassy of Japan in Hanoi, by Hideo Suzuki, Charge D’affaires of the Japanese Embassy in Vietnam and Jeanne Samuel...
A young volunteer organization, Friend’s Arms, and the Youth Box Communication Channel on August 6th launched a project of book reading festival for needy children in the Tien Phong Primary school in Tien Phong Commune, Ba Vi District, Hanoi. With...
The People’s Committee of Tra Vinh Province has just approved a house development program for towns and rural residential areas, in which 15,000 households living under poor economic conditions or are on the poverty line, will receive support to...
Vietnam will spend VND 2.38 trillion ($113.33 million) on supporting more than six million near-poor people in buying health insurance, said Pham Luong Son from the Vietnam Social Insurance. The prime minister has recently decided to raise the...
The PetroVietnam Fertilizer and Chemicals Joint Stock Company (PVFCCo) and the Kon Tum Province’s Fatherland Front Committee have recently handed over gratitude houses to 100 needy families of Xa Dang ethnic minority group in Dac Ro Nga Commune, Dak...
The International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment (ICEVI) presented the Vietnam Blind Association with a number of schooling documents, for the blind. The gifts include more than 100 sets of documents in Braille for the...
The Italian Association for Aid to Children (CIAI) is coordinating with a Vietnamese counterpart to carry out a nutrition education project for ethnic people in the northern Bac Giang Province this year, with priority for the mountainous district of...
