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Vietnam has implemented various efforts to reform administrative procedures for citizens. Nevertheless, there still exist places where people are discouraged by the exhaustion and costliness of the…

(Story by Nguyen Thi Luyen - Deputy Director of Quang Tri General Hospital)Nearly two years ago, a patient excitedly told us after being discharged from the hospital: “Your hospital is awesome.…

Hop Thanh Thanh Van Cooperative was formed in late 2017. The farmer members had not been accustomed to doing business on any scale other than their own household. Just a year later, with technical…

September marks the harvesting of the cinnamon crop in Lao Cai province. Once the month is over, cinnamon farmers have already received the pay-off of their hard works throughout a long year. Like…

Having not accepted the fact that the market shock would take away her husbandry results, she confidently put forward creative ideas to overcome the likelihood of production loss and triggered a…

Before you could set foot onto the territory of Ngo Van Tien’s pepper farm, you had to trot through a patch of powdered white quicklime laid out by the owner at the trellis gate. One  reason was to…

Every year Nguyen Thi Kim Thuy looks forward to the cherry blossom season in South Korea. It is not because she enjoys it; in fact, the Mekong Delta-born business-owner has never been to one. But her…

Somewhere around 800m up, amid rocky spines and crisscrossing gullies fanning out of Vietnam’s Northeast massifs, Ha Van Cuong gave up his scooter, parking it by a small babbling stream. “No wheel…

That question was raised by Mr Nguyen Dang Anh, vice chairman of the Finance and Budget Committee, Quang Tri provincial People’s Council just before closing the 3-year-project funded by the EU and…

At the voters’ meeting on a winter day in December 2016, 60 people in Baze village (Gio Linh district, Quang Tri), mostly women, were listening to the local People’s Council member reporting about…