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Master sheme on social support facility network approved
Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha signed Decision 966/QD-TTg, dated August 17, 2023, approving a master scheme on social support facility network in the 2021-2030 period with a vision towards 2050.The scheme targets that at least 90 percent of people with especially disadvantaged living conditions ...
Kim Anh
Increasing the efficiency of online business for women with disabilities
The Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) will actively advise and perform activities to help women with disabilities in many forms and act as a bridge to connect businesses, social organisations and the whole community to join hands to promote equity and rights for people with disabilities, ...
International law governing cyberspace globally urgently needed to ensure human rights
A virtual executive seminar themed “International law governing cyberspace” was co-held by the Department of Foreign Relations under the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) in coordination with the Dutch Embassy and the EU delegation to Vietnam in Hanoi on August 27.The event was aimed at ...
Social entrepreneurship takes root though Vietnam still not affluent
Despite a pervading sense of materialism typical of a developing economy, social entrepreneurs are finding fertile ground in Vietnam.Indeed, according to a 2019 survey commissioned by the British Council, the seeds of social enterprise were sown here in three phases: before 1986 by collectively owned ...
Linh Do
US$2.9 million funded to build resilience to natural hazards in central Vietnam
A workshop was held in Quang Tri province, on July 24, to kick start the third phase of the ‘Building resilience to natural hazards in Central Vietnam’ project. With a budget of roughly US$2.9 million, the third phase of the project is being implemented in 20 ...
Raising public awareness of natural disaster preparedness
Competent authorities should work to raise public awareness as well as improve their forecasting capacity against natural disasters in the context of extreme and unpredictable climate change, Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong said in a letter penned for the 72nd anniversary of ...
