The ASEAN Disability Forum takes place via videoconference on December 18 (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The
ASEAN Disability Forum (ADF) was
held virtually on December 18 with a focus on protecting social security for persons
with disabilities (PWDs) during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Speaking from Hanoi, Nguyen Van Hoi,
Director of the Social Assistance Department at Vietnam’s Ministry of Labour,
Invalids and Social Affairs, said ASEAN has a population of more than 625
million, including about 100 million PWDs.
Member countries have always paid attention to issues
related to the disabled, but PWDs in not only Vietnam but also other ASEAN
countries still face numerous difficulties, especially in accessing healthcare,
By 2025, the country targets supplying electricity to
over 871,000 households in more than 6,800 villages of 2,100 communes, and over
2,600 small and medium-sized pumping stations in the Mekong Delta, and connecting
to the national grid or providing renewable energy to islands belonging to Quang
Tri, Kien Giang, and Khanh Hoa provinces.
The 21.1 trillion VND in funding will come from the
State budget. If Con Dao Island is also connected to the national grid, the investment
will rise by a substantial 4.8 trillion VND.
An said that the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT)
has held working sessions with the World Bank (WB) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB)
5.3 percent of children aged 5-17 engage in child labour
Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam’s
child labour rate is approximately 2
percentage points lower than the regional average for Asia and the Pacific,
found the
The survey was conducted by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids
and Social Affairs (MoLISA) and the General Statistics Office with technical
support from the International Labour Organisation (ILO) from November to
December 2018.
It identifies an estimated 9.1 percent of children aged 5-17
engaged in economic activities, and 5.3 percent (or more than 1 million) in child
labour.
Compared to findings from the first National Child Labour Survey
conducted in 2012, the latest figures point to an encouraging decrease in the
At a meeting to announce the outcomes of the study (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - If the sex ratio at
birth remains unchanged, Vietnam is likely to record an excess of 1.5 million
males aged 15-49 by 2034 and 2.5 million by 2059, an in-depth study of the 2019
population and housing census reveals.
The fifth of its kind since
national reunification in 1975, the census collected
basic demographic information on more than 96.2 million people in nearly 26.9
million households nationwide.
At a meeting to announce the outcomes of the study in Hanoi on December 18, Vu
Thi Thu Thuy, Director of the
General Statistics Office (GSO), said the birth rate in Vietnam is