A contest titled “Teenagers with wildlife protection” was launched in Hanoi on April 10 as part of activities marking International Day for Biological Diversity (May 22). The contest aims to encourage young people to engage in wildlife conservation...
Russia’s government will provide Vietnamese students with 70 university scholarships in atomic energy in 2014, Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training informed. The scholarships will cover tuition, accommodation, round-trip airfare, visa fee,...
Construction of the second school for children on Truong Sa archipelago was completed as part of the second phase of the Program “For beloved Truong Sa students”. The school, covering 383 square meters on Sinh Ton island, cost nearly 12.5 billion...
The US organization Peace Trees Vietnam (PTVN), which consists mostly of American war veterans, has helped Vietnam deactivate around 64,000 pieces of explosives and clear over 138 ha of land contaminated with the unexploded ordnance (UXO) in the...
The World Bank (WB) has pledged to fund $1.5 billion for Vietnam to better conduct its hunger eradication and poverty reduction programs in the next two to three years, state media reported. The financial support would be made through loans for...
A cultural event highlighting the Khau Vai Love Market will take place on April 24 to 26 in the northern Ha Giang province's Meo Vac district, according to a local official. “The Khau Vai Love Market festival 2014 will be organized on a large scale...
The Central Highland province of Gia Lai is making every effort to preserve and promote the cultural space of its famous gongs, which were recognized by UNESCO as an intangible and oral masterpiece of human culture in 2006. The province reported...
The Song Ma 110kV transformer station in Huoi Mot commune, Song Ma district, northern Son La province, was put in commission on April 4, expecting to aid economic development in areas lying along the Vietnam-Laos border. At the inaugural ceremony,...
The International Labor Organization is assisting Vietnam in launching a project on improving labor relations in several cities and provinces in the 2014-2017 period. The project aims to build a relations system that conforms with the 2012 Labor...
Doctors have found a calcified fetus, which was believed to have existed for between 27 and 40 years, in a woman in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa, the first case reported in Vietnam so far. Nguyen Thi Sau, 76, was admitted to the Cam...
