General News

  • Heavy rains triggered by typhoon Mirinae, the first to hit Vietnam this year, has caused one death, nine people injured, and damage worth VND100 billion ($4.5 million), leaving many parts in the country’s northern region in power outages. The storm...
    Monday, 1st August, 2016
  • Vietnam’s highest legislature National Assembly (NA) will continue supervising the case in which Taiwan-invested Formosa Hung Nghiep Ha Tinh Steel Corporation poisons Vietnam’s sea by untreated wastewater, state media reported, citing the NA’s...
    Monday, 1st August, 2016
  • The 27th International Biology Olympiad (IBO 2016) was officially ended in Hanoi on July 23 after a competitive week with plentiful activities. As the final result, Vietnamese delegation grabbed one gold medal, one silver medal and two bronze medals...
    Monday, 1st August, 2016
  • Campus France Vietnam, the bureau of the French Embassy in Vietnam in charge of the mobility of Vietnamese students to France, will organize a Study in France forum in cooperation with the Union of Vietnamese Students in France late this month. The...
    Monday, 1st August, 2016
  • The Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange (VAVA) has organized diverse measures to care for the lives of AO victims. According to Senior Lieutenant-General Nguyen Van Rinh, VAVA President, 4.8 million Vietnamese people were exposed to AO,...
    Monday, 25th July, 2016
  • A large amount of unexploded ordnance (UXO) remain in areas which used to be battlefields during the war against Chinese invaders in Vietnam’s northern region for a decade beginning in 1979, according to the news agency VTC. The war has gone for...
    Monday, 25th July, 2016
  • As of late June, the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) supported nearly 6.8 million poor and near-poor households and people with merits. The VBSP recently convened a regular Board of Directors meeting in Q2 under the chair of Governor of the...
    Monday, 25th July, 2016
  • Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has emphasized the need to mobilize social resources for sustainable poverty reduction and encourage people to join these efforts. Speaking at a meeting of the Central Steering Committee for Sustainable Poverty...
    Monday, 25th July, 2016
  • The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has assigned the authority of the northwestern province of Yen Bai to submit a dossier of the Xoe dance of the Thai ethnic people to UNESCO to seek the title of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity....
    Monday, 25th July, 2016
  • A Vietnamese consortium between Vietnam Construction and Import-Export JS Corp. (VCG), known as Vinaconex and Intelligent Building Solution JSC has won packages worth VND552.5 billion ($24.55 million) in total for the Danang-Quang Ngai expressway....
    Monday, 25th July, 2016