VietNamNet Bridge – Some 80 delegates from 11 countries in the East Asia-Pacific region gathered in Viet Nam yesterday to discuss gender integration in rural transportation.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Preparations for upcoming elections and measures for social and economic development are Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s top concerns,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Government policy will be changed to help the poor get out of poverty sustainably. Viet Nam Plus speaks with Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Nguyen Trong Dam about the changes.

Cutting the poverty rate among ethnic minority groups by 3-4 percent annually is among the specific targets for 2025 set recently by the Government in its efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals in connection with ethnic minorities.

National Assembly (NA) Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung expressed his delight at meeting World Bank (WB) Country Director in Viet Nam, Victoria Kwakwa, in Ha Noi yesterday,

To cope with the consequences of climate change including high temperatures, rising sea levels, increases in natural disasters, landscape changes and economic damages, Vietnam has joined hands with the international community to protect and develop

 VietNamNet Bridge – Former chairman of the National Committee to Prevent and Fight AIDS, Drugs and Prostitution, Chung A, tells Khoa hoc & Doi song that managing the ‘oldest profession' is a complicated task.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Prime Minister has approved the establishment of a council to assess all national target programmes on rural development and sustainable poverty reduction for the period of 2016-20.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam has achieved significant economic growth in the 40 years since the liberation of the south in 1975, according to reports from international institutions like the United Nations, the World Bank,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam still has social problems to solve though it has reaped outstanding achievements in poverty reduction in the past two decades.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Promoting State-owned bodies' autonomy in the field of health care and education and pursuing market mechanisms does not mean that the poor are not cared for,

 The World Bank (WB) Board of Executive Directors has approved an additional 100 million USD loan for an ongoing project to help improve living standards for the poor in six northern mountainous provinces of Vietnam.

Poverty eradication remains the overarching goal of global development efforts, Ambassador Nguyen Phuong Nga, Permanent representative of Vietnam at the United Nations said at a session of the UN Economic and Social Council.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ministries and sectors should rework ineffective poverty reduction policies, Son Phuoc Hoan, Vice Chairman of the Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs, told Nong Thon Ngay nay (Countryside Today).

 As many as 323,200 households in the Mekong Delta got rid of poverty in 2014, exceeding the set target by 3.4 percent, according to the Steering Committee for the Southwestern Region (SCSR).

Doctors from the Ha Noi-based Bach Mai Hospital conducted a surgery on a man to replace artificial heart valve in new place for the very first time.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has reduced its poverty rate from 58.1% in 1992 to 17.2% in 2012, lifting some 30 million people out of poverty,

 VietNamNet Bridge – A multi-dimensional approach covering all aspects of life besides income is needed to tackle poverty, Do Manh Hung, deputy chairman of the National Assembly Social Affairs Committee, tells Tin Tuc (News).

 VietNamNet Bridge – Scientists and administrators once again rang the bell of alarm against a rapid depletion of natural resources, a biodiversity decline and climate change causing adverse impacts on farming and the livelihood of people

 The southern Binh Duong Province is the only province in Viet Nam that has almost no poor or near-poor households, the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has revealed.