Throughout 2025, the Vietnam Red Cross Society maintained its frontline role, rolling out proactive response plans, expanding training and drills, and strengthening public awareness. Forecast-based early action initiatives were implemented in central provinces and major urban centres, contributing to reduced losses, alongside improved coordination in risk monitoring and early warning systems.
The Red Cross Society of the central province of Thanh Hoa and Laos’ Houaphanh province will bolster cooperation in the 2024-2025 period under a Memorandum of Understanding signed between the two sides at a conference in Thanh Hoa on April 2.
As many as 6,077 blood units were donated in the northern province of Ha Nam during the Red Spring Festival from December 8, 2023 to March 17 this year.
Ho Chi Minh City has taken the lead in the voluntary blood donation movement for many years, accounting for one-fifth of the donated blood nationwide, President of the city’s Red Cross Society Tran Truong Son said on April 7.
The Red Cross Societies of Thua Thien-Hue and Laos' Salavan province on December 21 held a conference in the central Vietnam province to review their past cooperation and set out orientations for joint works in the 2023-2027 period.
The Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRC) will target the provision of comprehensive support for people living in difficult circumstances during the 2022-2027 period, according to freshly-elected President of the VRC Central Committee Bui Thi Hoa.
The Red Cross Society of the northern mountainous province of Son La visited and presented gifts to border guards at Chieng Khuong border gate in Song Ma district of Vietnam and border guard station 212 in the Lao province of Houaphanh.
The Red Cross Society of northern Ninh Binh province held a humanitarian Lunar New Year fair in support of the poor and the disabled in Yen Thanh, Yen Dong and Yen Thai – the poorest communes of Yen Mo district, on January 25.
In about a month, scientists will issue conclusions on the extent to which climate change has had a hand in the latest extreme weather phenomena hitting Vietnam.
A “Rice ATM” using artificial intelligence (AI) technology was set up in Da Nang on August 18 to help those facing difficulties due to social distancing measures amid the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak in the central city.
Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh presented houses and gifts to policy beneficiaries and poor students in the central province of Quang Nam on June 1.
The Ho Chi Minh City Computer Association (HCA) and the municipal Red Cross Society on February 27 held a workshop calling for blood donation amidst the COVID-19 outbreak.
The Red Cross Society of Nghe An and Coca-Cola Company on December 8 inaugurated the Ekocenter, a centre for community activities, in the central province’s Cua Lo town, the 12th of its kind in Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh City face a shortage of blood for medical treatment in the last two months of this year, according to Chairman of the city’s Red Cross Society Tran Truong Son.
Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has handed 89 relief packages, each worth 3 million VND (129 USD), to needy students in the Red River Delta province of Thai Binh.
Ho Chi Minh City’s Red Cross Society on May 12 launched the 2019 Month for Humanitarian Activities on the occasion of the World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day (May 8).
Close to 500 Vallet scholarships worth 10 million VND (428.39 USD) each were presented to outstanding students from 58 high schools and six SOS villages in the north on August 23.
The Red Cross Society (RCS) chapters in the central province of Quang Nam have raised over 101.6 billion VND (4.51 million USD) from the public since early this year to implement humanitarian programmes, contributing to ensuring social security in the locality.
The blood donation Red Spring Festival 2018 took place in the southern province of Binh Phuoc on March 7, attracting over 800 young people and volunteers.
