COMMUNITY

A Samaritan has begun to take classes for adult rag pickers close to a rubbish dump in Da Nang where most of them earn their livelihoods.

Climate change is generating a brew of extreme weather events that threaten global security, the UN chief said.

The orchestra of the US 7th Fleet on July 17 organized a special show for disabled kids in Ngu Hanh Son district in the central city of Danang.

Ho Ho hydropower dam in the central province of Quang Binh is being threatened by locals using explosives to catch fish.

Up to 6,901 houses have been built for the poor in border areas and on islands over the past 3 years, according to a conference in Hanoi on July 19.

DTiNews readers have participated in a campaign to donate one million notebooks to children in disaster-hit localities.

The US's Johnson & Johnson Medical SA Inc. will provide $80,000 to help disabled and disadvantaged children in Hanoi.

One of Hanoi’s outer ring roads has been turned into a rubbish-strewn muddy track.

Dak Uy, the only rosewood forest in the Central Highlands, is close to complete destruction because of illegal logging.

Two international NGOs have donated 20 sport wheelchairs worth around $6,400 to Vietnamese people with disabilities.

Doan Trang and Thanh Bach, hosts of the latest season of "Buoc Nhay Hoan Vu" will become goodwill ambassadors for a charity programme.

The Vietnam Red Cross mobilised more than VND949 billion (USD46 million) through a number of movements in the first half of 2011.

Participants in the 2011 Green Itinerary Walk Across Vietnam arrived in Quang Tri Province and joined many activities to support AO victims.

Illicit sand exploitation along the Cai River in Khanh Hoa Province has caused serious landslides, threatening people’s lives.

The Vietnamese embassy in Russia held a fundraiser on July 11 to raise money for Agent Orange/Dioxin victims in the homeland.

In the second part of an investigative series, DTiNews seeks to get a more detailed look at these operations.

DTiNews discovers first-hand about the illegal logging that is decimating the protected forests of the Truong Son mountain range.

Many domestic press agencies signed a cooperation agreement with the “Life is Beautiful” programme to provide support to Agent Orange victims.

Vietnam needs more than VND3.29 trillion (USD160 million) to support people with disabilities during the next 10 years.