Ho Chi Minh City raised more than 8.4 billion VND (330,000 USD) at a special art programme in the city on December 26 evening, aiming to support local farmers and disadvantaged residents.
The Standing Board of the Party Committee of the southernmost province of Ca Mau is accelerating efforts to do away with temporary and dilapidated houses by 2025 through mobilising a collaborative approach to support vulnerable communities.
Social policy credit has been a “highlight”, and a “pillar” in the system of policies aimed at alleviating poverty and ensuring social security, meeting the desire of the people, particularly impoverished and disadvantaged groups, over the past decade, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said on August 14.
Ensuring equal access to digital technology and benefits from digital economy for all is a priority of Vietnam, Minister Counsellor Cung Duc Han, Deputy Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the UN has said.
Vietnam is one of the countries that are successful in hunger eradication and poverty alleviation, achieving many economic achievements thanks to the application of private property rights and free-market reforms, according to an article posted on US’s news website washingtonexaminer.com on October 11.
Bac Giang needs to pay further attention to poverty alleviation and human resources development serving ethnic work, President Nguyen Xuan Phuc urged the northern province on May 12.
Throughout history, Vietnam has always put its people at the centre of every socio-economic development strategy, programme, and project, thereby obtaining considerable and multifaceted achievements in ensuring human rights.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has affirmed the significant role played by the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) in the country’s poverty alleviation efforts.
Policies to support the impoverished, particularly children, the elderly and ethnic minority people, should be completed to ensure that no one is left behind, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has said.
Governor General of Belize Colville Norbert Young said he admired Vietnam’s struggle for national liberation in the past as well as the country’s achievements in socio-economic development in recent years.
The north-western mountainous province of Lai Chau has implemented various measures to boost local living standards in line with the provincial Party Committee’s resolution on sustainable poverty alleviation for 2016 – 2020.
Poverty alleviation programmes aiming to help people in mountainous areas of central Quang Ngai province are ineffective and unsustainable, local authorities said.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has commended Army Corps 16 under the Ministry of Defence on its role in local socio-economic development and defence-security maintenance during his visit to the military corps in the southeast province of Binh Phuoc on August 20.
Poverty alleviation and hunger eradication has been a consistent priority for Vietnam and the country is committed to achieving these goals in cooperation with the international community, Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung said in Hanoi on December 13.
The first Vietnamese Coffee Day opened on December 10 at the Lam Vien Square in Da Lat city, aiming to boost productivity and quality while adding value to homegrown beans.
A regional workshop to share experience in harmonising culture, environmental and economic development for mountainous and ethnic minority areas was held in the northern province of Thai Nguyen on September 18.
