General News

  • Vietnamese students are still weak at foreign languages though language training centers have been mushrooming in Vietnam, especially in big cities like Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City, experts said.  Most local students just learn foreign languages...
    Thursday, 10th March, 2011
  • The Vu A Dinh Scholarship Fund has received a donation of 600,000 from Japan’s Yasuhara group. At the receiving ceremony, Mr. Fukuda, representative from the group said that some other businesses in Osaka city also want to provide support to the...
    Thursday, 10th March, 2011
  • A fourth-year student at the Hue University of Arts in Vietnam’s central province of Thua thien-Hue has won the Grand Prize at the second international Furoshiki (wrapping cloth) design competition in Japan.  Phan Khanh Trang was awarded 100,...
    Thursday, 10th March, 2011
  • CPA Australia has just granted 6 scholarships worth VND 300 million to excellent students in the international accounting masters programme at Swinburne University in Vietnam. CPA Australia (or the Australian Society of Certified Practicing...
    Thursday, 10th March, 2011
  • More than 30 Canadian education institutions will participate in Canadian Education Fairs in Vietnam’s biggest cities of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in March. The fairs which will take place at the Melia Hotel in Hanoi on March 2 and at the Legend...
    Thursday, 10th March, 2011
  • The Saigon Water Supply Corporation (Sawaco) will carry out a $154-million project including $138 million from the Asian Development Bank to reduce water leakage expand water supply networks in Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City by...
    Thursday, 10th March, 2011
  • The Asia Development Bank (ADB) has pledged to lend $1 billion to help develop water supply system in Vietnam in the 2011-2020 period, said the Vietnamese Ministry of Construction’s Department of Infrastructure. Of the sum, $250 million will be...
    Thursday, 10th March, 2011
  • Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked related agencies to urgently complete and publish the latest scenarios on climate change and rising sea level for likely affected localities, the state-run Vietnam News Agency said Feb 16. The PM...
    Thursday, 10th March, 2011
  • Vietnam is in serious shortage of more than 20,000 preschool teachers, negatively affecting the quality of the national preschool education, said the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET). Improper incentives for teachers, including low salary...
    Thursday, 10th March, 2011
  • Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan has asked the Ministry of Education and Training to fully implement new tasks for this year, especially the second semester of the 2010-2011 academic year. During his working session with ministry officials on...
    Thursday, 10th March, 2011