Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi will spend VND3 trillion ($162.35 million) to develop preschool education in the 2010-2015 period. Under the plan, the city aims to upgrade more than 3,000 unsettled classrooms, build 809 new classrooms and bring...
Six Vietnamese students won three bronze medals at the 6th International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO) held in Azerbaijan from December 2-11. This year, the Olympiad lured the participation of more than 600 students under 15 from 51 countries and...
Russia will grant 300 scholarships to Vietnamese undergraduate and post-graduate students each year to help them take training at leading Russian universities, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said while meeting with Vietnamese counterpart in Moscow on...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training announced a draft new tuition fee plan for the 2010-2015 period, under which the fees will not be allowed to surpass 5% of residents’ average income, the Thanh Nien newspaper reported Dec 16. Under...
The government of Canada always considers Vietnam a priority in its educational cooperation, said Canadian Ambassador to Vietnam Deanna Horton. Speaking at a seminar which opened in Ho Chi Minh City on December 8, Ms Horton said that Canada is...
The government of Vietnam has decided to provide VND50 billion ($2.7 million) and 2,000 tons of rice to help the central highlands province of Gia Lai overcome the consequences of natural disasters. The recent storms left seven dead, six others...
Vietnam’s rice is among group of ten commodities which are severely affected by climate change, the Thoi bao Kinh te newspaper reported last week, citing the U.S.’s Time newspaper. Vietnam rice yield may reduce sharply when the sea water rises,...
Vietnam has a stockpile of 1.7 million tons of rice, highest in the recent years, sufficient to meet the domestic demand and for export, the Sai gon Giai phong newspaper reported Wednesday, citing Nguyen Thanh Bien, deputy minister of Agriculture...
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) currently helps 320 Vietnamese small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) carry out 320 energy-saving projects in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emission and production costs. The SMEs have received a...
The northern province of Hoa Binh has mobilized over VND2 billion ($108,200) to build funds for the poor since the beginning of the year.Recently, the fund has been distributed democratically and openly. The province has built 135 houses of national...
