Vu Nhi Cong

This was the focus of three meetings organised in Ho Chi Minh City, where 74,264 abortions took place in the first nine months of 2005.

The country hopes to join the World Trade Organisation by November 2006. An economics professor said: "To overcome poverty, the priority is to help people understand globalization and the market economy."

With government permission, central plateau tribes are learning weaving, farming and animal husbandry.