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The primary social issues in Vietnam are rural and child poverty. Vietnam scores 37.6 in the Gini coefficient index of wealth inequality, with the top 10% accounting for 30.2% of the nation's income and the bottom 10% receiving 3.2%. In 2008, 14% of the population lived below the national poverty line of US$1.15 per day.
See Malaysia-Vietnam relations. Vietnam has an embassy in Kuala Lumpur; Malaysia has an embassy in Hanoi and consulate-general in Ho Chi Minh City. Mongolia: 1280 (Yuan dynasty) 17 November 1954 [59] See Mongolia–Vietnam relations. The countries signed a Friendship and Cooperation Treaty in 1961, renewed it in 1979, and signed a new one in ...
During the official visit to China in May 2008 of General Secretary Nông Đức Mạnh, senior leaders of the two countries agreed to build a "Comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership" in the 21st century on the basis of 16 Word Guideline "Friendly neighbors, Comprehensive cooperation, long-term stability, looking to the future" and the 4 good spirit "Good neighbors, good friends, good ...
It belongs to the Austroasiatic language family, which also includes languages such as Khmer and Mon. Vietnamese was spoken by 85–90 million people in Vietnam at the 1999 census. In the early 21st century, around another four million Vietnamese speakers are found outside of Vietnam, mostly refugees from the Vietnam-American War.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. State Department on Monday boosted Vietnam's ranking in a human-trafficking report, even as it cited concerns that the Southeast Asian country had failed to ...
The 2019 Vietnamese census, officially the 2019 Viet Nam Population and Housing Census (Vietnamese: Tổng điều tra dân số và nhà ở năm 2019, lit. 'Total investigation on the population and housing of the year 2019') was the fifth national census of Vietnam since the country's reunification, [1] and the eighth census conducted by the General Statistics Office of Vietnam. [2]
The leaders of China and Vietnam hailed as "strategic" on Wednesday their decision to strengthen ties and be part of a community with a "shared future", as a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping ...
The deterioration of relations between China and Vietnam in the late 1970s led to military conflicts along the border, causing a sharp decline in the frequency of transnational marriages. [1] However, they did not completely stop; a 1986 study of one area of the border documented 122 Vietnamese women who entered China for marriage from 1979 to ...