As many as 250 students from 20 countries in the Asia-Pacific region joined the cultural exchange festival Global Village 2011 in Vietnam’s southern metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City Mar 20. The event, the first of its kind in the city, marked the...
The government of Australia will grant 245 scholarships to Vietnamese students in 2011, one and a half higher than the figure of 2009, the Ha Noi Moi newspaper reported March 22. The scholarships worth AUD300,000 each is part of the government’s...
Japan will provide $200,000 in non refundable aid for a project to build and upgrade schools in Vietnam’s central provinces of Nghe An and Thanh Hoa this year. The signing ceremony for the grant was held in Hanoi on March 24, the Quan Doi Nhan Dan...
More than 12 million Vietnamese people currently are in need of mental health care for 10 kinds of popular mental disorders like anxiety and depression, an official of the Ministry of Health was cited by the Nong Thon Ngay Nay newspaper as saying...
Vietnam has called on the international community to provide more technical and financial assistance for its medical sector in a bid to better healthcare services for local residents, a health official said.Health Minister Nguyen Quoc Trieu made the...
Japanese import-export enterprises have been asked to ensure their food products free from radioactivity before exporting to Vietnam, Head of the Ministry of Health’s Food Safety and Hygiene Department Nguyen Cong Khan said. “Firms from the disaster...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has pledged to further children protection in Vietnam through an action program in the next five years, state media reported. The program was signed by the UNICEF Representative in Vietnam Lotta Sylwander...
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the University of Tokyo and the Vietnamese Forest Inventory and Planning Institute (FIPI) started a project on Mangrove Forest Mapping and Carbon Stock Estimation in Hanoi Mar 21. The two-year project...
The World Bank (WB) will continue prioritizing clean water and environmental sanitation programs in Vietnam’s rural areas in the next 10 years, a WB senior official said. WB Senior Urban Specialist Dean Cira made the statement at a conference on...
The Vietnamese Defense Ministry has supported 30,579 households with hunger eradication and poverty alleviation since 2006. The above figure was announced at a five-year summary meeting of the campaign, “Days for the Poor”, launched by the whole...
