Tag: rural

Rural development project bears fruit

VietNamNet Bridge - A five-year community-based rural development project is already seeing the fruits after two years of implementation in Hoa Minh and Giua villages in the northern provinces of Bac Giang and Phu Tho. The living standard of residents has improved since taking part in the project. VietNamNet Bridge - A five-year community-based rural development... Read more

‘Bachelor bomb’ threatens rural areas

Males drinking after work in the Mekong Delta is one of the reasons why country girls are looking to the cities for husbands Rural girls are abandoning their villages in search of love and money in the cities, leaving behind packs of lonely young male workers. It’s a familiar story - two prosperous families... Read more

15.6% of rural families get safe water

VietNamNet Bridge – Of nearly 1 million people who caught digestive-related diseases in 2007, 88% were related to unsafe water, according to a workshop on agricultural and rural environment in central Vietnam. Mountainous provinces are facing a serious shortage of clean water.VietNamNet Bridge – Of nearly 1 million people who caught digestive-related... Read more

WB, central bank sign $200 million rural finance pact

Vietnamese farmers will have better access to credit under an agreement that the World Bank and the State Bank of Vietnam signed Friday in Hanoi. Under the agreement, US$200 million will be taken from the International Development Association (the World Bank’s concessional lending arm) for the Vietnam Third Rural Finance Project.A World Bank statement... Read more

WB provides 200 million USD for rural development

VietNamNet Bridge – The World Bank (WB) will provide a 200 million USD loan to Vietnam to help it carry out the Rural Finance Project 3, which has been designed to develop the country’s rural economy. The Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) Nguyen Van Giau and WB’s Acting Country Director in Vietnam Martin Rama signed a loan agreement... Read more

Painter Le Trieu Dien returns to his rural past

VietNamNet Bridge – Veteran artist Le Trieu Dien’s latest exhibition of oil paintings reveals how the past has informed his present. Countryside dreams: Artist Le Trieu Dien’s Return 1.Dien says the show at HCM City’s Tu Do Gallery, titled Return, reflects “my return to the fields, deltas and wharves. And thus a return to myself”.“I... Read more

Banks bringing capital to rural areas, but indecisively

VietNamNet Bridge – Banking experts have expressed their concern that commercial banks are not paying attention to the development of the rural market as the area deserves to be a large market with great potential. Banks have been trying to expand their operation networks in an attempt to expand their market shareTo date, only the Bank of Agriculture and... Read more

WB assists Vietnam to expand rural electricity network

VietNamNet Bridge – The World Bank (WB) will provide a credit worth 150 million USD to help Vietnam expand its rural electricity network. WB will provide a credit worth US$150mil to help Vietnam expand its rural electricity network. The project is significant as it contributes to poverty reduction in rural areas.An agreement to this effect was signed by... Read more

WB to loan Vietnam $150 million for rural power

The World Bank will give Vietnam credit of up to US$150 million to support its rural electricity network expansion under an agreement signed in Hanoi Tuesday. According to the agreement, signed by representatives of the State Bank of Vietnam and the World Bank, the money will be used to improve and standardize medium... Read more

Programme 135 gives facelift to rural mountainous areas

VietNamNet Bridge – A national programme for socio-economic development that was carried out in a number of poor mountainous communes inhabited by ethnic minorities (Programme 135) has given a facelift to the rural mountainous areas. Over the past two years, the Programme 135 has yielded achievements in a number of areas and will continue to meet the demands... Read more

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