The Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs sets the
target for this year to increase the incomes of households in poverty by
160 percent over last year's levels,
About 53 million people nationwide have got covered by health insurance
after the Health Insurance Law has been enforced for two years,
accounting for over 60 percent of the country’s population.
The Italian Tuscany region’s Red Cross is to fund the training of three
paediatricians from Vietnam National Paediatricts’ Hospital as part
of a cooperation programme signed in Rome recently.
The pharmaceutical
sector should encourage the research and development of essential
medicines
that have not been produced in Vietnam,
said Health Minister Nguyen Quoc Trieu.
Laos has obtained significant
socio-economic achievements with poverty reduction rate falling from
33.4 percent in 2003 to 24-25 percent in 2010, said a Lao senior
official.
The capital city, which merged with
several pats of the adjacent rural provinces of Ha Tay and Hoa Binh in
2008, is waiting for Government approval of its project for “New
lifestyle Rural Areas” for 2020 with orientations for 2030.
The Khmer of the Mekong Delta province of An Giang rang in the New Year,
Chol
Chnam Thmay, with extra joy thanks to a bumper crop and benefits from
Party and
State social welfare policies.
The Khmer ethnic people in the Mekong
Delta province of Soc Trang welcomed in their New Years festival, Chol
Thnam Thmay, with extra joy as they have had a bumper winter-spring crop
as well as the Party and State paying them more attention in their
recent social welfare policies.
The Highland Education Development Organisation (HEDO) and its Director
were
presented high distinctions at a ceremony to mark the organisation’s 20
th
anniversary in Hanoi on Mar. 28.
Ho Chi Minh City on February 25
announced the winners of the top 100 prizes in a tourist programme to
promote its image as an attractive and safe destination and the busiest
economic hub in Vietnam.
State President Nguyen Minh Triet has
urged the health sector to expand its grassroots network, providing
services to all people, including those in remote areas.
The French Red Cross (FRC) has
committed 19 billion VND (roughly 1.03 million USD) in relief aid for
storm victims in several central and Central Highlands provinces.
The Government will allocate 10,000
tonnes of rice and 460 billion VND to support localities in central and
Central Highlands regions to recover from the effects of typhoon
Ketsana.
Representatives from 15 cities and provinces in the central
region and Central Highlands on Sept. 11 gathered at a seminar in Nha
Trang city, in the central coast province of Khanh Hoa to discuss
measures to coordinate the control of the A/H1N1 flu.
The International Cooperation Company
has handed over the just-completed project on border villages in the
northern province of Houaphanh, Laos , to the provincial authority.
Humanitarian organisation Atlantic Philanthropies (AP) has funded the construction and equipping of 62 communal medical stations in central Khanh Hoa province.
XIII National Congress of Communist Party of Vietnam
