Needy kids enjoy Mid-Autumn Festival delights

Vừ Thị Mỉ, an 8-year-old Mông ethnicity girl, cannot hide her excitement when speaking about her Mid-Autumn Festival experience.

HCM City launches campaign to help street kids

A campaign called “Chắp Cánh Ước Mơ” (Giving Wings to Your Dreams) that helps street children in crisis was launched yesterday (July 6) in HCM City at Children's House in the city.

American fosters needy kids2 To hundreds of unfortunate children and young women in the central province of Quang Nam, successful American entrepreneur Robert Kalatschan and his family are more than donors, who have provided free accommodations, edu-cation, medical care and food. For they have also brought love and happiness to the less fortunate.

Charity drive raises $2.6m for needy kids A fundraising programme held on Saturday in Ha Noi raised nearly VND55 billion (US$2.6 million) for needy children.

Viet Nam to ramp up foster care for needy kids The Government will soon introduce regulations that encourage more Vietnamese families to provide foster care for disadvantaged children, Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalid and Social Affairs Doan Mau Diep said yesterday.

Family day raises funds for needy kids About 20,000 people are expected to celebrate Kermesse 2012 at the Sai Gon Zoo on Sunday, December 16. Poussiere de Vie, an NGO that is organising the festival, said it is a Family Day for a Good Cause.

Telcos told to check pre-paid subscribers The HCM City Department of Information and Communications asked telecom service providers to check information registered by their prepaid subscribers to discover wrong personal information in time and cease providing services to violators.

City recommits to helping needy kids Needy and disabled children will be the focus of many long-term and short-term programmes that HCM City will begin implementing by the end of this year, according to the Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

Games offer free broadcast rights The Organising Board for the 26th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games has decided that television broadcasting rights for the Games will be free for participating nations.

Indonesia frees 101 Vietnamese fishermen All the 101 Vietnamese fishermen freed from arrest in Indonesia returned home aboard their own vessels yesterday.