Rural Areas

Vietnam cuts reserve levels to lift agriculture loans

Vietnam's central bank on Friday cut the compulsory reserves level for banks with large agriculture lending to one-fifth the regular rate from February through July

President praises rural development in Thai Binh

State President Truong Tan Sang has praised the Red River northern Thai Binh Province for remarkable achievements it has made in modernising its rural areas

Rural area programme to be enhanced in 2012

The national programme on building new rural areas must be enhanced this year in order to meet the target as scheduled, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh has said.

Rural shoppers turn to VN products

A programme to popularise high-quality Vietnamese products in rural areas begun three years ago has achieved great success.

New model for countryside reviewed

President Truong Tan Sang has affirmed that the nation's New Model for the Countryside was among the Party's major policies to create fundamental changes in rural development and narrow the gap between urban and rural areas.

Three countries aid clean water project

The governments of Australia, the United Kingdom and Denmark will provide Vietnam with aid worth 93 million USD to implement phase III of the National Goal Programme (NGP) on Clean Water and Environmental Hygiene.

ADB hosts partnership workshop in Dak Lak

A workshop on the Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for the central and Central Highlands regions in 2012-2015 was conducted in Dak Lak province on December 21 by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) office in Vietnam.

Farms, rural areas targeted to receive loans

Investing in agriculture and rural areas will be among the leading objectives of the banking sector next year, industry insiders say.

Delta gets another mobile school

Dariu Foundation, a Switzerland-based NGO, yesterday held an inauguration ceremony in HCM City to launch its second mobile school.

NGOs pledge $165m for poverty, hunger

About 95 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) operating in Viet Nam yesterday pledged US$165 million to eliminate hunger and reduce poverty in 2012 at a meeting in Ha Noi.

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The very first meeting from the ASEAN task pressure on mental health has been heldin Hanoi from May 23-25, with associates from regional and globalorganisations participating. Addressing the openingceremony, Deputy Minister of Public Health, Nguyen Thi Xuyen stated theevent offers nations an opportunity to share good practices in protectingmental health, adding to strengthening cooperation within the regionand fulfilling the aim of “Healthy people, healthy ASEAN”. Xuyen known as on nations to

Desperate people get free facial, eye surgery

Forty-two kids with harelips and cleft palates within the two CentralHighlands provinces of Dak Nong and Dak Lak have obtained free check-upsand procedures. The programme for poor children inremote and ethnic minority areas, worth about 500 million VND, wascarried out and based on the Center for Research and Aid forOperation Smile (OSCA) at Dak Nong province’s general hospital from May19-21. OSCA Director Bui Tu Anh stated this isthe very first time the center provides free check-ups and surgical