Nearly VND272 trillion (US$11.8 billion) will be mobilised to implement the national target programme on socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas during 2021-30,

The IFC and the ADB pledged to provide further support for Vietnam while meeting with Politburo member and Chairman of the Party Central Committee’s Economic Commission Nguyen Van Binh in Hanoi on November 7.

The lives of ethnic minority people could be improved and gap between ethnic and mountainous region and others narrowed once a master plan get approval from the National Assembly.

Authorities of Hanoi have decided to earmark over $5.3 million each year for promoting sustainable poverty reduction in the locality, towards having no poor households by the end of this year.

Top lawmakers on June 7 urged for sustainable poverty reduction in ethnic and mountainous areas and the tackling of child abuse to be given priority in the National Assembly’s action programme next year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – On his 2,000sq m vegetable farm in Tra Vinh Province, Thach Bay was working to the tune of a revolutionary song playing on his old mobile phone.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has replaced the single-dimensional approach to poverty with the multidimensional measurement method for 2016 – 2020 period, said an official.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Socio-economic goals set at the beginning of the year should not be changed despite several challenges facing the country, participants at a Government meeting said on July 1.

VietNamNet Bridge – The National Assembly Standing Committee yesterday called on the Government to stabilise the situation at industrial parks and export processing zones in various provinces where workers protested at China's acts in the East Sea.