Some 120 scholarships of the Vu A Dinh Scholarship Fund were presented to disadvantaged students in ethnic minority-inhabited areas in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak on January 10.
The Vietnamese Party and the State are implementing a strategic policy on making strong investment in mountainous and border areas and improving livelihoods of people, especially their legitimate need for religious practice.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc emphasised the importance of supporting children in remote and ethnic minority-inhabited areas while meeting with representatives from the Vu A Dinh Scholarship Fund and fund donors in Hanoi on March 15.
The implementation of a project on strengthening international cooperation to support socio-economic development in ethnic minority-inhabited areas will be extended to 2025 under a decision signed recently by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.
The 14th National Assembly (NA) continued its ninth session on June 12 with personnel of the National Election Council (NEC) among the issues high on the agenda.
The Vietnamese National Assembly’s Council for Ethnic Affairs and the Committee for Ethnic Affairs under the Lao National Assembly have agreed to step up cooperation and the exchange of professional experience.
The northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang has decided to invest over 116 billion VND (5.1 million USD) in 2018 to help people in specially disadvantaged and ethnic minority-inhabited areas build infrastructure, develop production and diversify their livelihood.
As many as 57,000 ethnic minority people in Vietnam’s north-western provinces of Lai Chau and Son La have been equipped with knowledge about natural disaster and catastrophe prevention, and gender equality under a project funded by several foreign agencies.
Poverty rate in the Central Highlands dropped by 2.8 percent annually over the past 15 years, the Steering Committee for the Central Highlands said on June 30 .
Chairman of the National Assembly’s Ethnic Affairs Council Ha Ngoc Chien has called on the UN Development Programme to support Vietnam in organising training courses for NA deputies.
A national-level conference was held in Ho Chi Minh City on October 7 to deliberate measures to promote gender equality policies in ethnic minority-inhabited areas for 2016-2020.
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