Publications offered to ethnic-inhabited, mountainous regions
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has decided to provide 19 magazines and publications for ethnic minority-inhabited, mountainous and disadvantaged regions in the 2019-2021 period.
Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has decided to pr🎐ovide 19magazines and publications for ethnic minority-inhabited, mountainous anddisadvantaged regions in the 2019-2021 period.
The moveaims to enhance information and communications work serving political tasks inthe regions.
The publicationsto be distributed to the localities include those focusing on ethnic affairsand mountainous areas, along with border security and youth start-ups inVietnam’s major newspapers and magazines of the Government Committee on EthnicMinority Affairs, the National Assembly Office, the Vietnam Fatherland FrontCentral Committee, and the Vietnam Farmers’ Union, among others.
The PMassigned the Government Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs to work withrelevant agencies to keep a close watch on the implementation of the decision.
Earlier, PMPhuc decided to provide rice🐎 as food aid for people in northern and centralmountainous provinces ahead of the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday.
The Ministryof Finance was asked to allocate more than 3,700 tonnes of rice from nationalreserves for poor households in the provinces. The rice willbe distributed among the northern provinces of Ha Giang (359 tonnes), Yen Bai(380 tonnes) and Cao Bang (603 tonnes), the central provinces of Phu Yen (399tonnes), Binh Dinh (1,000 tonnes) and Quang Binh (975 tonnes).-VNA
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