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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.

Feasting the eyes with tree-lined tracks, typical Hue-style garden houses, ancient ruong houses, as well as the making of paper lotus and incense sticks are among a thousands of things that impress foreigners when engaging in a community-based tours in Thua Thien-Hue province.

The national industry promotion programme from 2014 to 2018 has contributed largely to industrial development in rural areas, thus promoting the economic structure shifting towards industrialisation, modernisation, and new-style rural area building, said Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh.

The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang will provide vocational training for more than 10,800 labourers living in rural areas in the 2019-2020 period.

A delegation of the Japanese Embassy to Vietnam and the Japan Student Services Organisation (JASSO) in Vietnam had an exchange with administrators and students of Quy Nhon University in the central province of Binh Dinh on November 28.

The poverty rate of ethnic minority households in the Mekong Delta province of Ca Mau fell by more than 3 percent each year after three years of implementation of its national target programme on sustainable poverty reduction that began in 2016.

First Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCMCYU) Central Committee and Chairman of the Vietnam Youth Federation (VYF) Le Quoc Phong asked for promoting exchanges between the two countries’ youth during talks with President of the Union of Youth Federations of Cambodia (UYFC) Hun Many in Hanoi on August 29.

The poverty rate in Indonesia declined to 9.8 percent, or nearly 26 million people, of the total population in March 2018 from 10.64 percent, or nearly 27.8 million people, in 2017, according to Indonesia’s Central Statistics Agency (BPS).

Ho Chi Minh City has more than 27,000 job vacancies in May, according to Tran Anh Tuan, Vice Director of the municipal Centre of Forecasting Manpower Needs and Labour Market Information.

Officials from the Lao Front for National Construction (LFNC) have asked Vietnam in general and northern Tuyen Quang province to help Laos in collecting Lao artifacts and old documents during its revolutionary time.

The Women’s Union of the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho launched the Women Startup Day on March 6 to celebrate the International Women’s Day (March 8) and encourage the women to start businesses.

A workshop took place in the Mekong Delta City of Can Tho on February 27 to launch a local project on social inclusion of people with disabilities with an estimated funding of 400,000 USD.

A 200-billion-VND project on vocational and Khmer script training targeting Khmer ethnic people in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho is set to begin in March.

Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan visited the Congregation of the Holy Cross Lovers of Thu Thiem in District 2 on February 9 on the occasion of the upcoming traditional Lunar New Year (Tet).

Nearly two years after the 2016 Formosa toxic spill, fishermen in the coastal province of Quang Tri are slowly returning to the sea or finding alternative livelihoods.

The capital city of Hanoi has set a target of 10 percent growth in rural industrial production in 2018 to reach 98 trillion VND (4.32 billion USD).

More than 6,000 people with disabilities from 16 southern provinces and cities enjoyed free entry, art performances and food at a festival in Ho Chi Minh City on December 2.

Located 80 kilometres from the mainland, Quang Ninh province’s Co To island, a rough pearl in the Gulf of Tonkin with turquoise sea and tranquil beaches, has grown in popularity among domestic and international visitors.

Compensation for households affected by the marine incident that occurred in the central coastal provinces last year must be completed by the late November, Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh said.

Taiwan (China) will open 70 vocational training courses for 2,234 Vietnamese students in 2017, Taiwanese Deputy Minister of Education Lin Teng-Chiao said at a seminar in Ho Chi Minh City on July 21.