General News

  • As many as 70,000 households in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi are living without fresh water after the water pipeline from Da River broke again on June 17, the seventh time since the system put into operation in 2008. Following the previous times...
    Monday, 23rd June, 2014
  • Eight species of flora enlisted in Vietnam’s Red Book are being preserved at the Tram Chim National Park in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap, which enhances the ecological balance and the rehabilitation of regional species that are on the...
    Monday, 23rd June, 2014
  • Russian and Vietnamese scientists in Hanoi-based Vietnam–Russia Tropical Centre have discovered Miguelia cruenta, a new orchid species, in Hon Ba Nature Reserve in Khanh Hoa. The orchid is a long plant and grows on rocks or tree trunks. The diameter...
    Monday, 23rd June, 2014
  • Only 54.4% of medical waste water across Vietnam are treated, statistics by the Ministry of Health showed. The modest%age is attributed to lack of money and close coordination between ministries, heard a conference in Hanoi on June 18. The function...
    Monday, 23rd June, 2014
  • Vietnam has been running waste treatment facilities being built by Japanese investors or using Japan’s technologies. The capital city of Hanoi has installed a semi-aerobic landfill system which adapts the world-renowned Fukuoka Method that can treat...
    Monday, 23rd June, 2014
  • Vietnam has been running waste treatment facilities being built by Japanese investors or using Japan’s technologies. The capital city of Hanoi has installed a semi-aerobic landfill system which adapts the world-renowned Fukuoka Method that can treat...
    Monday, 23rd June, 2014
  • Vietnam has continued building schools on its islands to create better living and learning conditions for children whose parents are working to protect the country’s sovereignty in the East Sea. Capital for building the schools is mostly sourced...
    Monday, 23rd June, 2014
  • The Vu A Dinh Scholarship Fund of the HCM Communist Youth Union has signed agreements with schools and enterprises to assist poor and ethnic minority students nationwide. Projects that have been carried out in the last 15 years by the fund include...
    Monday, 23rd June, 2014
  • Vu A Dinh scholarship fund has been honored with the Labor Order, first class, for its support to ethnic minority students across the country.Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan presented the accolade to Truong My Hoa, Chairwoman of the fund at a...
    Monday, 23rd June, 2014
  • Vietnam may request government senior officials including deputy ministers, heads of general departments, and heads of ministerial-level bureaus to be able to speak at least one foreign language, according to a draft regulation by the Ministry of...
    Monday, 23rd June, 2014