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  Accenture Awards Save the Children an Additional US$3.2 Million to Provide Young Adults

  (08:26:26 AM 31/05/2014)

  Accenture and Save the Children announced that Accenture and the Accenture Foundations have awarded Save the Children an additional US$3.2 million to build upon Accenture-supported projects in Vietnam, China and Bangladesh that create job skills training and placement opportunities for disadvantaged and at-risk young people. This grant brings Accenture’s direct support to more than US$ 5.7 million since 2010.

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  Disadvantage children struggle in "lottery of birth

  (10:54:43 AM 07/02/2015)

  Vietnamese children born into the Kinh ethnic group were nearly three and a half times less likely to die than their non-Kinh peers, Save the Children reports.

  Tags: Disadvantage, children, struggle in , lottery of birth
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  Save the Children and HSBC provide rainwater harvesting systems for poor families in Dong Thap

  (11:37:48 AM 09/06/2014)

  Save the Children and HSBC awarded 240 rainwater harvesting systems to poor families in 12 communes of Dong Thap Provinces last weekend.

  Tags: Save the Children , HSBC, provide, rainwater, harvesting, systems , poor, families, Dong Thap
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  Public car decree may save $71m

  (17:42:05 PM 09/07/2014)

  The State budget will save about VND1.5 trillion (US$71.4 million) a year if a draft decree on cutting back car purchases by Government agencies is approved.

  Tags: Public car, save, Government, traffic police,
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  Images: Hanoian children in the 1990s

  (11:59:04 AM 27/10/2014)

  German photographer Hans Peter Grumpe visited Hanoi in 1991-1993 and he recorded images of Hanoi’s innocent children in the early renovation period.

  Tags: Images, Hanoian, children, the 1990s
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  Hundreds of children to receive free eye surgery

  (08:46:50 AM 08/08/2014)

  Two hundred poor children with eye defects from several northern and central provinces will get free eye surgery thanks to donations from Prudential Life Insurance Company.

  Tags: children, receive, free, eye surgery
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  Medical opinion could help save rhinos: experts

  (17:09:17 PM 21/05/2014)

  Traditional medicine practitioners can help save rhinos by emphasising that rhino horn cannot cure cancer and offering alternative remedies, including various herbs, experts said at a workshop held in Ho Chi Minh City on May 18.

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  Vietnamese pop stars to help save rhinos

  (16:19:00 PM 17/04/2014)

  Two Vietnamese pop stars have been co-opted into South Africa's campaign to save the rhino so that they can help spread the message in East Asia where demand for rhino horn is huge.

  Tags: Vietnamese, pop stars, to help, save rhinos
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  Korean star to join Save Earth campaign in Vietnam

  (11:30:05 AM 12/04/2014)

  Kim Soo Hyun, a famous movie star from the Republic of Korea, will visit Vietnam on April 22 to take part in the “Save Us – Save Earth” campaign.

  Tags: Korean star, Kim Soo Hyun, Save Earth, campaign, Vietnam
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  Nursery schools shut down, where will children go?

  (11:23:42 AM 25/12/2013)

  Hanoi and HCM City local authorities have vowed to shut down the unlicensed nurseries, or the household run classes which fail to meet the requirements on safety for babies. But this means that the children from poor families and immigrant workers would have nowhere to go.

  Tags: nursery school, shut down, kids, kindergartens,
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  Plan to save last elephants

  (10:03:06 AM 28/05/2013)

  The Government has given the go-ahead to a plan to protect elephants from extinction and breed domesticated ones.

  Tags: government, protect elephants, wild elephants,
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  Vietnam ranked 93rd on the best places in the world to be a mother

  (15:05:05 PM 06/05/2014)

  Vietnam is ranked 93rd on Save the Children’s 2014 Mothers’ Index – an annual ranking of the best and worst places in the world to be a mother. Despite falling seven spots on the index, the country remains ahead of regional neighbours Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar.

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  Save the Dong Nai River: experts

  (12:13:32 PM 14/05/2015)

  Scientist and experts have renewed their calls to the National Assembly and the Government to take prompt actions to save the Dong Nai River in Dong Nai Province.

  Tags: Save , Dong Nai River, experts, river, proẹct
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  No one can save Vietnam’s elephants?

  (15:40:09 PM 30/10/2012)

  The serious poaching which has not been eased over the last many years has led to the sharp fall of the number of elephant individuals in Vietnam, from 1500-2000 in 1990s to tens of elephants now.

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  Parents feel sad about children’s bad marks, unhappy about high marks

  (13:07:56 PM 16/01/2014)

  The first semester of the 2013-2014 academic year has finished. Vietnamese parents now, once again, feel worried about the education their children are enjoying.

  Tags: bad mark, good mark, parents, children, schools,
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  More children receive free surgery for cleft palates

  (11:44:20 AM 08/04/2014)

  The Vietnam-Cuba Friendship Hospital in Hanoi and Operation Smile Vietnam organisation will give free medical checks and surgery to children suffer from cleft lips and cleft palates from April 15-18.

  Tags: children, free surgery, palates