A police investigation has ruled that a livestock company did not violate food safety regulations after images showing poor quality meat circulated on social media.

Localities across Vietnam have implemented a range of social support initiatives to assist disadvantaged groups, including poor and near-poor households, individuals with meritorious services, children, ethnic minority people, and disadvantaged workers to enjoy the Lunar New Year Festival.

VOV.VN - More than 100 poor workers, filled with excitement and emotion, boarded a special train free of charge at Di An Railway Station in southern Binh Duong province on January 22 to take them to their hometowns for family reunion during the coming Lunar New Year 2025 holiday (Tet).

National Assembly (NA) Chairman Tran Thanh Man visited and presented gifts to policy beneficiaries, poor households, and the police force in the Mekong Delta province of Can Tho on January 20, ahead of the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

VOV.VN - The Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) will offer subsidised travel to low-income workers who want to return home for family reunion during the 2025 Lunar New Year, known locally as Tet.

About 315,000 poor and near-poor households across the countries are facing housing problems and in need of support, according to the Ministry of Construction (MoC).

Vietnam has made significant achievements over the past nearly 40 years of Doi Moi (Reform), with hunger eradication and poverty reduction being a key and consistent policy of the Party and State.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has demanded efforts be ramped up to eradicate illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing while leaders of poor-performing localities be stringently handled as a European Commission (EC) delegation will come to Vietnam for the fifth inspection this October.

Lifestart Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation based in Hoi An City and originating from Australia, has provided ten clean water filtration systems and water tanks to underprivileged schools in the mountainous Bac Tra My and Phuoc Son districts of central Quang Nam province.

40 impoverished people in the central province of Thue Thien – Hue have received free cataract surgeries under a charitable programme organised by the Hue Eye Hospital, in collaboration with the Asia - Pacific Prevention of Blindness Association (APBA), the provincial support Association for Poor Patients, and the Nam Dong district medical centre.