Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on April 13 launched a campaign aimed at eliminating temporary and ramshackle houses across the country by 2025, in a significant move to improve living conditions for impoverished people.

Seeing Vietnamese people struggling to fight the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, many foreigners are doing their part in keeping the virus at bay. Tchico, a French national, is offering free delivery of essential items to impoverished people around Ho Chi Minh City.

The Sponsoring Association for Poor Patients in the south-western region allocated 19 billion VND (864,000 USD) to help impoverished locals to have a warm traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

Leaders of the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang on January 30-31 visited and presented gifts to local religious communities ahead of the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet).

The Republic of Korea’s (RoK) optical glasses company Davich Optical has carried out a campaign to give eyeglasses to the elderly and children in the southern province of Binh Phuoc.