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Ho Chi Minh City needs 553 billion VND (23.9 million USD) to invest in a motorbike emission control programme in the city by 2030.

The People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City plans to spend some 800 billion VND (34.5 million USD) on gifts to policy beneficiaries and impoverished households in the city as the Lunar New Year (Tet) 2019 nears.

Hanoi will spend 378.9 billion VND (over 16 million USD)on gifts to 871,790 people on the occasion of the upcoming Lunar New Year 2019, according to the municipal Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on March 27 handed over a decision on the recognition of Binh Minh town in the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long as a new-style rural area.

Vice President of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Truong Thi Ngoc Anh on February 2 presented 30 Tet gifts and 30 million VND (1,317 USD) in cash to impoverished households in Tam Nong district and Thanh Thuy district in the northern province of Phu Tho.

The Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh is making a beeline for sustainable poverty reduction, aiming to cut the rate of impoverished households in the locality by 2.5 percent by the end of this year.

The Vietnam Bank for Social Policies has provided an average of over 5.3 trillion VND in soft loans for more than 630,000 poor households in the Northwest every year to help them escape from poverty.

Nearly 200 collectives and individuals representing ethnic women who excel in economic development in the northwestern region will be honoured at a conference in Nghe An province in early May.

President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan presented 200 Tet gifts worth 200 million VND (8,996 USD) to impoverished households in Tra Vinh province on January 31.

Hanoi will spend nearly 283 billion VND (12.6 million USD) on gifts to policy beneficiaries and impoverished households on the occasion of the upcoming Lunar New Year 2016.

One hundred impoverished households in Tra Bong district in the central province of Quang Ngai have been presented with a breeding cow each to help with their livelihood.

As many as 130 charity houses, each worth at least 32 million VND (1,300 USD), were handed over to poor and ethnic minority households in Truong Long commune, the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho.

Phase II of Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung’s newly approved programme for providing housing support to the poor will be implemented in 2016, according to the Vietnam Bank for Social Policy (VBSP).

The central province of Phu Yen targets a year-on-year decrease of 2-2.5 percent in the impoverished household rate from 2016-2020.

The Republic of Korea’s Samsung Electronics and Habitat for Humanity Vietnam has implemented a programme to build houses for impoverished households in the northern province of Thai Nguyen.

The military-run telecommunications Viettel Group provided 2,787 cows to impoverished households in the northern mountainous province of Son La between September 2014 and June 30 this year.

The central province of Quang Nam has decided to allocate 6.9 trillion VND (331 million USD) to support impoverished households to build houses that prevent floods and inundations.