Posts Tagged ‘help’

Fabric scraps help women pick up the pieces

QĐND – Saturday, October 10, 2009, 22:22 (GMT+7)

A small Japanese group provides training to the wives of HIV-infected men.
Ti no longer earns a living as a xe om driver to bring prostitutes to work.
She and dozens of other HIV-infected men’s wives have been hired by [...]

The American Embassy in Hanoi announced Thursday a US$450,000 grant for a project designed to help Vietnam combat A/H1N1 flu and other diseases.
The one-year project aims to strengthen the role of civil society in fighting this flu and other threats.
With the grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Vietnam Red Cross Society [...]

Twice every month, Tran Thi My and voluntary doctors and nurses from the Center for Lonely Mothers get on a light truck and head for remote areas, where they offer free medical checks and gifts to poor people who live alone. All the members of the team are elderly people, too. Ms. My, also known affectionately [...]

The deputy Prime Minister and Education and Training Minister, Nguyen Thien Nhan, praised the southernmost province of Ca Mau for its initiatives to help poor children get to school.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan (2nd, L) and Ca Mau Province officials present a bicycle to a poor pupil at the province’s Education Fair (Photo: [...]

A specialist conference will be held on August 28 for domestic companies that intend or are trying to expand their business via the Internet, HCM City-based BOM Informatics Corp. announced August 25.

A conference, “Marketing via internet,” on August 28 will give local businesses more information about Internet commerce (Photo: Courtesy of BOM Informatics)The conference, [...]

HA NOI — Brokerages serving the OTC market will form a co-operative working system under the Ha Noi Securities Trading Centre aimed at boosting the effectiveness of investments in this market, under a draft rule currently being circulated by the centre for comment.
Referring to the new, more tightly regulated OTC market as the market of [...]

HCM CITY — The city will support small-and medium-sized-enterprises (SMEs) in the coming period with trade fairs and exhibitions that will promote high quality products and services provided by the sector, a senior official has said.
Nguyen Van Lai, director of the HCM City Department of Industry and Trade, said that these events would help the [...]

HCM City (VNA)- Vietnam can save at least 5 percent of its total energy needs by 2010 and dup to 8 percent by 2015 if a new energy conservation programme is approved by the Government. The programme was discussed at a seminar held last week by the HCM City Energy Conservation Centre (HCM-ECC) and Energy [...]

HCM CITY—Viet Nam can save at least 5 per cent of its total energy needs by 2010 and up to 8 per cent by 2015 if a new energy conservation programme is approved by the Government.
The programme was discussed at a seminar last week held by the HCM City Energy Conservation Centre (HCM-ECC) and Energy [...]

Experts say that serious flooding, like what took place in Nguyen Huu Canh Road, Binh Thanh District earlier this week, must be controlled. — VNA/VNS Photo Trang Duong
HCM CITY — Good management of the city’s urbanisation and economic growth is the only sustainable solution to HCM City’s flooding woes, experts have said.
The infrastructure projects currently [...]