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HA NOI (Biz Hub)— Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group last Friday kicked off its US$10 million investment programme of community development in a bid to improve life for people in Cambodia's Ratanakiri province, where it is investing in agricultural projects.

In the first stages of the programme, the group provided free healthcare services to roughly 1,500 local people in the province's Sre Aung Chhrong Commune; also offering gifts of rice, salt and sugar to 400 poor local households.

Under the programme, which will last until 2016, the group will also build up community cultural houses, schools, medical stations and roads in the province, besides giving sponsorship to local students to study teaching and healthcare in Viet Nam's Gia Lai and Kontum provinces.-VNS