General News

  • Ha Tinh Province's Military Headquarters de-activated a 500kg bomb in Thach Tri Commune on Jul 8. The bomb was believed to have been dropped in 1972 when the US Air force attacked northern Vietnam. The military have deactivated 12 bombs, weighting...
    Friday, 16th July, 2010
  • The Hanoi-based National Hospital of Dermatology and Venereology provide free-of-charge medical checkups and consultancy for 100 poor patients with skin problems July 10. This is part of a program on poor patient care that the hospital has carried...
    Friday, 16th July, 2010
  • Saigon Commercial Bank (SCB) donated VND100 million to the Fund for the Poor in the Ho Chi Minh City July 6. The funding was given on the occasion of the establishment of its new head office in District 1, the Phap Luat Thanh Pho Ho Chi Minh...
    Friday, 16th July, 2010
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    Friday, 16th July, 2010
  • There was no serious problems reported on the first day of nationwide university entrance exams, Deputy Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Vinh Hien said. Hien said that more than 650,000 candidates in group A subjects (maths, physics, and...
    Friday, 16th July, 2010
  • In Hanoi, today July 9, agreement signing ceremony on cooperation building 2010 “Canon friendship school chain” was held between representatives from Canon Vietnam Co., Ltd, Phu Tho, Lang Son and Bac Ninh provinces. Implementing since 2007, the...
    Friday, 16th July, 2010
  • The Finance Ministry provided as many as 40,000 tons of rice in aid relief to poverty-stricken households throughout the country in the first half of this year. The rice was taken from the national reserve, which has so far stockpiled more than 140,...
    Friday, 16th July, 2010
  • Vietnam’s central province of Phu Yen has started the construction of a reservoir worth VND101 billion from g-bond, for ethnic minority people in Dong Xuan district, the Nong Thon Ngay Nay newspaper reported July 6. The reservoir of 4.5 cubic meters...
    Wednesday, 14th July, 2010
  • A batch of 80 computers and 10 printers has been provided for Vietnam’s northern mountainous province of Bac Kan on July 7, helping the poor province get access to the Internet. The batch is part of a programme, PCs for Life, launched by the...
    Wednesday, 14th July, 2010
  • As many as 5,000 ethnic people including ? ?u, Pu Péo, Si La, R? M?m, C?ng, Braau, B? Y, M?ng, and C? Lao in northeastern provinces will benefit from a project to develop education for ethnic people by the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET)....
    Wednesday, 14th July, 2010