Four more provinces have announced the completion of efforts to eliminate makeshift and dilapidated housing, bringing the total number of localities achieving this milestone to 19 out of 63 nationwide, according to the Ministry of Ethnic and Religious Affairs.
Efforts to eliminate temporary and dilapidated housing in Vinh Long province are being accelerated, with the goal of completing the initiative by April 30, 2025.
With effective implementation of the lending programme, over the past 19 years, the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) has become an effective tool in realising emergency credit policies, contributing to the country's poverty reduction cause.
More than 5,000 households in the central and Central Highlands regions have installed roof-top solar power systems with a total capacity of 150 MWp, generating 85.46 million kWh of electricity to the national grid.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade has proposed a new retail electricity tariff which is divided into five rates instead of six. In this option, 98.2 percent of households in the country would see no increase or even lower power bills.
As many as 192,000 households have directly benefitted from the Northern Mountains Poverty Reduction Project, said Nguyen Thanh Duong, Director General of the Department for Agricultural Economy, Ministry of Planning and Investment.
Credit institutions have assisted households affected by African swine fever (ASF) with 357 billion VND (15.35 million USD), heard a press conference in Hanoi on June 13.
The pooling of fields to create large-scale fields and cooperatives for growing clean produce in southern Dong Nai province has benefited farmers and companies.
The northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang will disburse 2 billion VND (88,000 USD) to move 95 households living in landslide-prone areas to safe places before the rainy season comes.
The People’s Committee of the north central province of Thanh Hoa has handed over an expanded site in the Nghi Son Economic Zone and local industrial parks for the implementation of the Nghi Son Oil Refinery and Petrochemical (NSRP) complex.
The daily lives of some 500 households have been disrupted and 600ha of protective forest lost due to landslides on the nearly 70km seashore of the Mekong Delta’s Kien Giang Province in recent years.
The use of pesticides and chemical fertiliser in farming and the discharge of solid waste from craft villages and households are the main causes of rural environmental pollution, which has become more severe recently in a country with nearly 67 percent of the population living in rural areas.
The People’s Court of My Duc district, Hanoi, on August 8 opened the first instance trial on law violations regarding land management in the district’s Dong Tam commune.
Thousands of households in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang have committed to use and protect parcels of forest near their homes, receiving monthly environmental payments that help them to improve their livelihoods, the Nong Thon Ngay Nay (Countryside Today) newspaper reported.
Party and State officials and local authorities paid visits to units and localities ahead of the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) festival on January 21-22.
As many as 4,000 households hit by drought and saline intrusion in the southern province of Tra Vinh have received financial assistance worth 500,000 VND (22.7 USD) each.
More than 454,000 poor and near-poor households will receive set-top boxes, the assistance sub-committee for the steering committee for digitising television plans was told at a recent meeting.
