General News

  • Vietnam and New Zealand agreed to formalize a climate change cooperation agreement in 2025 to mark 50 years of diplomatic relations, state media reported.   The agreement was confirmed by Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and...
    Monday, 4th November, 2024
  • Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has proposed limiting enrollment increases at universities with unemployment rates of graduates exceeding 30% or with first-year dropout rates above 15%, according to a draft regulation released on...
    Monday, 4th November, 2024
  • Sappers of Vietnam’s Quang Tri provincial Military Command on October 23 successfully detonated a 240kg magnetically-fused bomb left over from the war. On October 22, a patrol team of A Ngo commune's mobile militia in Dakrong district found the bomb...
    Monday, 28th October, 2024
  • Vietnam’s Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang aims to mobilize more resources to support people affected by Agent Orange. In the first nine months of 2024, the Association for Victims of Agent Orange or Dioxin in the province have mobilized over...
    Monday, 28th October, 2024
  • A war-time bomb weighing 1,362 kg was lifted up and moved to a safe location on October 24, according to the Hanoi Capital Military High Command. The 210-cm-long M-118 bomb was discovered near Long Bien bridge in Hanoi on October 21 by a local...
    Monday, 28th October, 2024
  • The bomb disposal team of the NPA/RENEW project discovered an ammunition bunker while clearing a contaminated area. On October 24, Norwegian People's Aid/Project RENEW (NPA/RENEW) confirmed that its bomb disposal team had discovered and safely...
    Monday, 28th October, 2024
  • The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Committees at all levels in the southern province of Tien Giang have collaborated with agencies and organizations to speed up social security programs, aiming to reduce the province's poverty rate to 0.87% this...
    Monday, 28th October, 2024
  • Developing and preserving Vietnam’s ethnic folk dance arts is a challenge with fewer and fewer troupes performing them, according to experts. Speaking at a conference titled "Exploring Themes and Folk Dance Language in Contemporary Dance Works,"...
    Monday, 28th October, 2024
  • Vietnam’s Ministry of Transport (MoT) has urged authorities of the central province of Binh Dinh to hand over cleared land for the Central Highlands Connectivity Improvement Project, funded by the World Bank (WB) and the Australian government, by...
    Monday, 28th October, 2024
  • Authorities in Vietnam’s central province of Thua Thien-Hue have agreed to raise the total investment of a green urban development project, funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), to nearly VND2.1 trillion ($87.5 million), circa VND159.09...
    Monday, 28th October, 2024