Posts Tagged ‘aid’
Benefactors and official agencies have donated books and study items to students in the central province of Phu Yen where Typhoon Mirinae wreaked havoc at the beginning of November.
Students of Xuan Lam Primary School in Song Cau District in the central province of Phu Yen wait for kind souls to donate tables and chairs [...]
More aid to victims of storm Ketsana
QĐND – Thursday, October 22, 2009, 21:2 (GMT+7)
The National Fund for Vietnamese Children has provided an aid package worth VND500 million (around US$28,000) to nine central and Central Highland provinces hit by storm Ketsana.
The beneficiaries include Quang Nam, Quang Ngai, Kon Tum, Gia Lai, Thua Thien-Hue, Da Nang, [...]
Prudential Vietnam gives VND 254 mil aid to children in flood-stricken area
QĐND – Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 22:10 (GMT+7)
As part of the programme “One million books, one million pens for children in the Central and the Central Highlands regions”, VND 254 million was donated through Thanh Nien Newspaper by Prudential Vietnam on Oct 13, 2009.
The [...]
Economic recession and A/H1N1 flu have seriously affected Vietnam’s tourism industry. The number of international tourists arriving in the country in the first nine months of the year has fallen. However, domestic tourist numbers have grown 30 percent.
Thung Lung Vang ecological tourist site in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong attracts many domestic [...]
Poznan (VNA) – Vietnam has proposed that ten largest CO2 emissioners among the OECD countries set up a special support programme for the world’s five most-hit countries by climate change-caused sea level rise.Deputy Prime Minister Dr. Nguyen Thien Nhan delivered the country’s proposal at the high-level segment of the 14 th United Nations Climate Change [...]
Geneva (VNA) – The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for 7 billion USD to provide urgent humanitarian aid to 30 million people in 31 countries worldwide.Speaking on November 19 about the Humanitarian Appeal 2009, the UN Secretary General said that the appeal aims to help the world’s most vulnerable people to survive the [...]
Hanoi (VNA) – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has hailed the implementation of the first phase of its 40 million USD emergency food programme in Cambodia as a success. “This assistance is making a very real difference to the lives of Cambodia’s most vulnerable residents,” ADB’s country director Arjun Goswami was quoted by the Phnom [...]
Hanoi (VNA) – The Republic of Korea (RoK)’s government said on November 14 that it will resume funding for private aid projects in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) despite Pyongyang’s threat to close the border amid rising tensions. Kim Ho-Nyoun, spokesman for the unification ministry, was quoted by news agencies as saying that [...]
Phnom Penh (VNA) – Over 68,000 poor families in Cambodia have received emergency food assistance following the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Board of Directors’ approval of the project last month, according to an ADB press release issued on November 14. “This assistance is making a very real difference to the lives of Cambodia’s most vulnerable, [...]
Jakarta (VNA) – Indonesia will not take loans offered by the International Monetary Fund to deal with the impact of the current global financial crisis, said a senior government finance officer.“We will not use the IMF programme because the problem of overcoming the crisis is not on the balance of payment but on maintaining budget [...]