The National Council of Education and Human Resources Development has supported the importance of educational reforms and international integration. On Aug 20, members of the council called for the reforms to take place in all areas of education,...
A kindergarten was opened in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum’s Konkloc hamlet yesterday. The school was built at a total cost of $52,000 funded by the Viet Nam Education Society of Canada. The project will benefit 60 children and their...
Two men were killed sawing open a bomb yesterday afternoon in coastal central Phu Yen Province's Son Hoa District. The men found the bomb in Da Chat Forest and sawed into it to obtain explosive powder from inside. The bodies of the victims were sent...
Groups of foreign backpackers have joined tours to witness mine explosion in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Tri, experiencing adventurous trips and being conscious of hardship left in the Vietnam War. Thomas Stone who supports the tours said...
The Quang Nam Province People's Committee has approved a plan to provide poor households, especially ethnic ones, land for agriculture and accommodation and clean water in 15 communes and hamlets facing “special difficulties”. The project seeks to...
As many as 50 cows were donated to poor households in the northern province of Lang Son as part of a program to reduce poverty in local border areas. President Truong Tan Sang hailed the “Cows for the Poor” initiative at the granting ceremony...
About 300 ethnic minority households in the central coastal province of Ninh Thuan have been resettled since 2008 under a plan on farming and residential resettlement adopted by the Prime Minister in 2007. Of them, 70 households have lived together...
The Australian Consulate General in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City has launched the Direct Aid Program (DAP) within a non-refundable aid worth AUD141.3 million ($131.3 million) for Vietnam in the 2014-2015 fiscal year. DAP, which includes governmental...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Transport has proposed the government allow it to carry out a VND14.8 trillion ($704 million) transport project under the build-operate-transfer (BOT) instead of using loans from the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The ministry...
Veterinary authorities have reported two fresh outbreaks of the highly pathogenic H5N6 bird flu in the northern provinces of Lang Son and Ha Tinh for the first time in Vietnam. The outbreaks occurred in a herd of chickens in Lang Son’s Trang Dinh...
