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The 12th Congress of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) for the 2018-2023 tenure closed in Hanoi on September 26 after the three days of sitting.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Finance and the Kuwait Fund have signed a loan agreement worth over 13.3 million USD for a multi-target development project for ethnic minority-inhabited areas in poor communes of Xin Man district, northern mountainous Ha Giang province.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc emphasised the need to ensure the quality of growth and people’s living standards at the same time while addressing the Cabinet’s meeting in Hanoi on April 2.

The development of physical infrastructure as well as educational and health infrastructure is essential to improve the living standards of people across the country, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has said.

More than 300 poor people and policy beneficiaries in Ba Trinh commune in Ke Sach district of the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang received free medical checkups and medicines on January 18.

Twelve years ago, Bachiang was one of the most disadvantaged districts in Laos’ southwestern province of Champasak.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc asked the northern mountainous province of Bac Kan to launch a widespread poverty reduction campaign and consider this a political task.

Nearly 100 delegates from 19 cities and provinces in the central region were brought together at a conference in Nha Trang resort city, Khanh Hoa province, on November 16-17, to review the five-year implementation of the national green growth strategy. ​

The retail industry has changed dramatically in the digital age where everything is connected, requiring retailers to continue to innovate to better serve customers’ diverse needs, speakers have said at a one-day summit held in Ho Chi Minh City.

No longer a new or luxurious concept, hi-tech and high-quality agricultural products are now a must for the modern Vietnamese consumer.

The World Vision Vietnam (WVV) and the Dien Bien province People’s Committee have agreed on principles in carrying out programmes and projects funded by the WVV in the northern mountainous locality from 2017-2022.

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.

Hanoi’s agro-forestry-aquaculture production value surpassed 18.6 trillion VND (about 818.4 million USD) in the two first quarters of this year, up 2.85 percent against the same period last year, heard a conference on July 19.

The total premium collected by insurance companies in Vietnam in the first half of 2017 has grown 21 percent year-on-year to 47.17 trillion VND (1.8 billion USD).

Vietnam has posted the highest regional increase in minimum wages over the last three years, more than Indonesia and China, but workers still struggle to make ends meet.

The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang has approved a programme on urban development through 2025, aiming to meet local socio-economic development needs in the context of international integration and to improve local living standards.

Up to 100,000 tonnes of Vietnamese rice will be shipped to the EU each year tax-free in 2018 following the Vietnam-EU Free Trade Agreement, helping local rice exporters penetrate the market.

The Vietnam Bank for Social Policies has helped 109,462 labourers from families of disadvantaged conditions and beneficiary policies and in disadvantaged localities go to work abroad.

The effective implementation of policies on ethnic groups has helped reduce poverty and improved the living standards of ethnic people in Hanoi.

The national target programme for building new-style rural areas has been approved by the Prime Minister in Decision No. 1600/QD-TTg.