The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in collaboration with the administration of the southernmost province of Ca Mau, handed over 59 safe houses to residents of Khanh Lam commune in U Minh district on August 15.

Raising rabbits for vaccine production is a new model that helps local residents escape poverty in a sustainable manner.

Poorly-performing State-owned people’s credit funds – a type of credit institution focusing on people in rural areas to help them escape poverty and avoid dependence on loan sharks – will be merged, acquired or dissolved to ensure the safety of the country’s finance and banking system.

President of the Republic of Korea (RoK) Moon Jae-in on February 25 announced that his country will work hard to prepare for the resumption of economic cooperation with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), stressing the need for the RoK to help the latter escape poverty.

As many as 800 families living in a remote commune in Dak Nong province on the Central Highlands have recently been given access to electricity.

Social credit programmes have helped ethnic minorities in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh escape poverty in recent years.

The Party Committee, People’s Council, People’s Committee and the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu on April 13-14 visited and delivered greetings to local Khmer monks, nuns and people on the occasion of their New Year Festival - Chol Chnam Thmay.

The living standards of Khmer ethnic people in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang have been improved in recent years thanks to the Party and State’s investment policies to develop the region.