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Vietnam would not be affected by Britain's decision to cut aid to the country, a Vietnamese minister said Thursday. 'It is their [Britain's] business,' Minister of Planning and Investment Vo Hong Phuc said. 'We have talked to them about the issue. The cutting of aid will not affect Vietnam.' Britain plans to continue to help Vietnam meet its Millennium Development Goals targets before stopping aid to the country in 2016, the British embassy said in a statement Wednesday, referring to UN goals to fight disease, eradicate extreme poverty, reduce child mortality and achieve universal primary education by 2015.



'As Vietnam is now a vibrant, emerging economy - a tremendous achievement - we will end our bilateral development programme in Vietnam by 2016 to redirect our aid to poorer countries that will need it more,' it said. Britain has promised to fund projects in primary education, sanitization and HIV/AIDS prevention. The announcement followed a statement Tuesday by Secretary of State for International Development Andrew Mitchell in London on the outcome of a bilateral trade review, which aimed to reorganize Britain's aid programme. Britain is to cut aid to 16 countries in total, including Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Russia and Serbia. The British government, through the Department of International Development, has provided more than 617 million dollars in grants to Vietnam since 1992. Around 12 million people still live in poverty in Vietnam out of a total population of 86 million. The poverty rate among ethnic minorities stands at more than 50 per cent.





Taiwan helps Vietnam clear unexploded bombs, reduce poverty

Focus Taiwan 2 March 2011



Quang Tri Province, Vietnam, March 3 (CNA) Taiwan's contribution to an international effort to help Vietnam clear unexploded bombs and reduce poverty has won thanks, not just from the local government but also from farmers who have benefited from the program, officials said Thursday. Wu Jung-chuan, deputy chairman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' NGO Affairs Committee, said that since 2009, Taiwan has worked with the Humpty Dumpty Institute (HDI) of the United States in carrying out a poverty reduction, livelihood improvement and unexploded ordnance (UXO) removal project in the country's Quang Tri Province.

One of the farmers told CNA that his 15-year-old son was injured when an unexploded bomb detonated three days after his birth, leaving him unable to talk. Over the years, the boy has had to make his living working on rice paddies and making bricks. In September, with the help of the Taiwan-U.S. program, he said, his son set up a mushroom farm near their house and is now earning US$140 a month -- three times his previous income. Mushroom cultivation is just one part of the project aimed at helping Vietnamese farmers get out of poverty, Wu said. "With well-developed agriculture and a rich supply of farming experts, I believe Taiwan can help expand the proje
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