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The Government of Japan has provided grant aid of 317 million JPY (3 million USD) to support human resources development in Laos.

The Mekong Delta province of An Giang has seen its poverty rate decline significantly in the five-year period from 2016 to 2020 thanks to the implementation of National Assembly (NA) Resolution No 76/2014/QH13 on promoting sustainable poverty alleviation to 2020.

Social credit programmes have contributed to the fruitful results Hanoi has obtained in poverty alleviation in the 2016-20 period.

General Director of the Vietnam Meteorological and Hydrological Administration Tran Hong Thai has been appointed as Vice President of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)’s Region II (Asia).

Economist Le Dang Doanh, former head of Vietnam’s Central Institute for Economic Management, presented the Southeast Asian country’s reform policies and achievements over the past three decades at a recent high-level dialogue that focused on development measures for Tanzania.

A string of measures have been carried out in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh to realise the National Target Programme on Sustainable Poverty Reduction.

The Ministry of Information and Communications, in collaboration with the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs and the standing board of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee, launched a text message campaign on August 17 to pool support for the impoverished nationwide.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc received Philippe Le Houerou, CEO of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) – a member of the World Bank (WB) Group, in Hanoi on August 15.

Governor General of Belize Colville Norbert Young said he admired Vietnam’s struggle for national liberation in the past as well as the country’s achievements in socio-economic development in recent years.

As many as 20 districts and 539 administrative units at communal and ward levels will be streamlined under a plan of rearrangement of administrative units, said Phan Van Hung, head of Local Administration under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA).

Many poor households in the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long have escaped poverty through central and local poverty alleviation programmes that provide soft loans to carry on business or agriculture.

Vietnamese Ambassador to China Dang Minh Khoi paid a working visit to China’s Guizhou province and Zhuang Autonomous Region of Guangxi province on May 25-28 to bolster bilateral collaboration between Vietnam and the localities.

Standing Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City’s People Committee Le Thanh Liem on May 27 received minister and secretary general of the presidency of Ivory Coast Achi Patrick, during which they discussed measures to promote bilateral cooperation, particularly in economics.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc visited the Vietnamese Embassy in Russia on May 21 (local time) as part of his current official trip to the country.

The Central Steering Committee for 2016-2020 National Target Programmes (NTPs) on May 8 announced a list of success in fulfilling the NTPs in 2018. ​

Hanoi stands ready to share experience with African experts in economic development, new style rural area building, social welfare and poverty alleviation, among others, Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung has said.

The Central Highlands province of Lam Dong has set a target to reduce its rate of poor household to below 1.9 percent by 2020 from the current 2.85 percent.

Japan is set to lift 86 percent of the tariff lines for Vietnamese products in line with its commitments in the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).

A press conference took place in Hanoi on January 11 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and Sweden (January 11, 1969-2019).

The north-western mountainous province of Lai Chau has implemented various measures to boost local living standards in line with the provincial Party Committee’s resolution on sustainable poverty alleviation for 2016 – 2020.