The 16th Summit of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN 16) will take place in Hanoi April 8-9 with a special focus on economic revival for sustainable development and climate change. ASEAN leaders are scheduled to approve joint...
Authorities in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi are seeking approval from the government to move universities and colleges to outskirts, as part of measures to solve traffic congestion, state media reported Mar 31. In fact, most of local universities...
Vietnam’s northern mountainous region reported more than 11,000 drop-outs in the 2009-2010 academic year due to financial difficulties and poor learning conditions. In the first term of the school year, 8,300 local students gave up their studies,...
U.S.-based APU Company Limited has got a license to build an international standard school worth $21 million in Vietnam’s central city of Danang. This is the first school of its kind in the city as well as the region, the Dai Doan Ket newspaper...
Vietnam had sent 15,900 students to study in Australia by May 2009, ranking the 7th among foreign countries, a rise of 60% compared to 2008, said the International Education Agency-Australia (IEAA). The biggest increase was in the fields of general...
Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Truong Vinh Trong has approved the hosting the seventh international dialogue on corruption prevention in the education sector by the middle of this year. At the event, the National Steering Committee for Anti-...
Hue Tourism College and Thailand’s Ubon Rachathani Rajabhat University have signed an agreement to promote cooperation in education and training. Under the deal, the schools will exchange teachers, training programs, scientific documents, cultural...
The Open Society Institute-Youth Initiative announces an open call for applications for a regional (South-East Asia) youth camp, "Debating & Producing Media." On behalf of the organizing committee, they would like to invite youth residing in...
The Japanese Business Association in cooperation with the Ho Chi Minh City Poor Patient Sponsor Association has donated VND800 million ($41,900) for poor patients. The money, collected through charitable fairs in HCM City, was handed over to...
The southern province of Ben Tre has spent VND10.1 billion on constructing 33 houses for poor families. Each house was built with a capital of between VND15 milion - VND30 million and in an area of over 32 square meters. Of the sum, the PetroVietnam...
