An explosion at a brick factory in Hanoi on Oct 8 killed a worker and seriously injured two others. The Gia Lam District police suspect that a bomblet that had remained undetected in the clay went off inside a brick-making machine at Quyet Chien...
Twenty-four people from the central city of Danang, who have high dioxin concentrations in their blood, were discharged from Military Hospital 103 in Hanoi on October 11 after a month-long detoxification course. During the treatment course, they...
A project to detect and clear bombs, mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) commenced on October 12 in the central province of Quang Nam. The project, funded by the U.S. Government through the Mines Advisory Group (MAG), will be implemented in Binh...
Hanoi’s fund for the poor raised 55 billion VND during an arts performance program on October 7. Addressing the event, Chairman of the Hanoi chapter of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee Dao Van Binh said many businesses have contributed to the...
Thanh Hoa Province has set itself a target of reducing the number of poor households by at least three per cent a year on average so that the rate of poor households in the province will be less than 10% by 2015. At a conference organized in Thanh...
Vietnam continues to play a very active role within the United Nations, Ms Pratibha Mehta, UN Resident Coordinator in Vietnam has said a recent exclusive interview with the Vietnam News Agency. The interview occasioned the 67th founding anniversary...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has allowed the Ministry of Finance to allocate an additional 4,000 tons of rice from the national reserves for famine relief in the central provinces of Nghe An and Thanh Hoa. Of the sum, Thanh Hoa will...
The Vietnamese government has approved to spend VND27.5 trillion ($1.3 billion) on the national sustainable poverty reduction program from now to 2015 with an aim to cut the poverty rate by 2% annually, the government said on its website. The...
Ethnohistorians proposed at a conference on Oct 8 that a group of more than a thousand people in the southern province of Binh Phuoc be recognized as Vietnam’ 55th ethnic group. Experts from the National Committee for Ethnic Minorities and...
A delegation from the Southwest Region’s Steering Committee, led by its deputy head Bui Ngoc Suong, visited the Khmer ethnic community in the southern province of Soc Trang on October 11 to wish them well during the 2012 Sene Dolta Festival. The...
