Vietnam improves its position on Sustainable Development Goals

Vietnamese workers making garments for Australian brands are unable to afford basic necessities and suffer sub-standard working conditions, said Oxfam.

Despite losing an arm to a police bullet, Do Hoang Toan has painstakingly rebuilt his life to script an inspiring story.

A charity set up by volunteers enables kids, whose lives have been thrown into turmoil, to continue going to school.

The world's 26 richest people own the same wealth as the poorest half of humanity, Oxfam said Monday.

In Ha Giang in Vietnam’s northern mountains, poverty forces many kids to drop out, but the prospects of hot meals also entice some.

Conventional welfare programs, ironically, can’t help the ones who need them the most.

They may be very basic but actually go a long way in ensuring poor ethnic children get education.

In Vietnam, extreme poverty dropped to 2 percent in 2016 but poverty remains widespread among ethnic minorities, a new report shows.

Nearly two million Vietnamese, or 2 percent of the population, still defecate in public, spreading diseases like flu, diarrhea and dysentery, an official said.

Harrowing real life stories of children show that education is the only light that can chase darkness from their lives.

Hundreds of millions of children and adults in Asia's rapidly expanding cities are undernourished, United Nations officials said on Friday.

Provincial authorities should ensure slum residents at Hue Citadel are resettled nearby and can continue with their occupations, the PM says.

Children dread using them even if there are enough to go around, which there often aren’t.