The eighth Northeastern Ethnic Group Culture, Sport and Tourism Festival officially began on September 27 with an opening ceremony on the theme ‘Northeastern Vietnam – A Beautiful and Sacred Land’ at Tan Quang Park, Tuyen Quang province. The opening...
The Vietnamese Union of UNESCO Associations has decided to establish the UNESCO Association for the Conservation of Vietnamese Ethnic Culture. The announcement was made at a September 29 meeting in the northern province of Thai Binh. Accordingly,...
- India Ambassador to Vietnam Ranjit Rae has donated his private collection of 194 books in different languages to the National Library. In recent years, the National Library of Vietnam and the Embassy of India have strengthened multifaceted co-...
Directorate for Roads of Vietnam will issue tender document late September to seek consultants for the Vietnam Road Asset Management Program (VRAMP) funded by the World Bank (WB). The $301.7 million VRAMP aims to upgrade 544 kilometers of...
The International Labor Organization (ILO) will finance $4.56 million to support sustainable employment in Vietnam for the 2012-2016 period, the government said on its website. The ILO announced the funding at the first meeting of the Vietnam...
Japan will continue to finance Vietnam to achieve its goal, especially transport infrastructure development, Vice Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) Osamu Yoshida said. Mr. Yoshida, who is now on a visit to Vietnam, made...
37 years on, unexploded bombs continue to ruin lives in the former wartime frontline regions of Vietnam. Somewhere in the centre of Vietnam, roughly halfway between Hanoi and Saigon, lies the small province of Quang Tri. Palm trees line its white-...
A detoxification centre for Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin victims was inaugurated on September 17 at Hospital 103 in Hanoi. The center’s facilities, including a sauna, gym, exercise machines and specific medicine, will accommodate 24 AO victims from...
The Vietnam-U.S. Dialogue Group has said that it aims to properly address the consequences of Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin in Vietnam by 2020. According to the action plan released on September 20 at the seventh meeting of the Joint Advisory Committee...
The Sri Lanka-Vietnam Friendship Foundation has launched a program to raise funds to buy medicines and wheelchairs for Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin. Speaking at the launching ceremony in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo on September 19...
