Vietnamnet.vn
Podcast
poor
Update news poor
Charity work in a small alley
VietNamNet Bridge – Sweating in the heat of Saigon, Do Van Ut fixes a
motorbike at the entrance to the alley at 96 Phan Dinh Phung Street in
HCMC’s Phu Nhuan District. Next to him is a jug of ice tea.
Super-rich an elite minority as gap between rich and poor widens
The World Bank believes that Vietnam has about 110 super-rich people. However, analysts say no one can say for sure how many super-rich there are in Vietnam, and it is also unclear how they got rich.
University grads eager to work on development of poor areas
VietNamNet Bridge – A new Government programme sending 600 recent university graduates to help boost development in poor and ethnic minority areas is on the right track, said Minister of Home Affairs (MHA) Nguyen Thai Binh.
People in rural areas become poorer
VietNamNet Bridge – The economic crisis have delivered a hard blow to people in rural areas, with many families sending relatives to urban areas to look for better income while those who stay back are also facing severe poverty,
Poor returns drive rice farmers from land
VietNamNet Bridge – One of the seven farming households in their district to walk off their rice paddies, Bui Thi Dung explains how her family's decided to give up on farming.
Old woman carrying huge face tumor
VietNamNet Bridge – Truong Thi My, 82, from the central province of Binh Dinh, has been painfully suffering from a huge tumor on her face for more than 40 years.
Farmers struggle against “shocks”
The panorama of agriculture and the rural is grey and bleak. Farmers have to "tighten their belts" because their income is decreasing since they suffer more "shocks" from natural disasters, epidemics and market fluctuations.
