ASEAN ministers have adopted a first-time draft of the ASEAN statement on enhancing cooperation in natural disaster management, at a closing ceremony of a meeting in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi. The consensus was reached at the second...
Vietnam disbursed an estimated amount of VND233 billion ($11.2 million) worth of state funds for education and training projects in the first five months of 2013, meeting 33.4% of the whole-year target, according to the General Statistics Office (...
Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan met with representatives from Japanese universities at a forum in Tokyo on May 25 to discuss measures to boost bilateral education cooperation. Deputy PM Nhan said that the Vietnamese government has...
Two unexploded wartime bombs recently discovered at the banks of the Hong (Red) River running through the northern province of Hung Yen have been safely disabled by disposal experts. With a diameter of 30 cm and a length of 80 cm, each weighs more...
Vice President cum General Secretary of the Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (VAVA), Tran Xuan Thu, received a delegation from the Korean Victims of Agent Orange Veterans Association (KAOVA) in Hanoi on May 22. Thu welcomed the...
A conference to deploy Decision 738/Q?-TTg issued on May 13th by the Prime Minister on the Plan to implement the National Action Program on overcoming the aftermath of bombs and mines left by the war to 2015 took place on May 24th in Hanoi. The...
The Vietnam General Confederation of Labor (VGCL) has proposed expanding a Ho Chi Minh City-based microfinance fund to help more poor households get low-interest loans to improve their living conditions. Although the Capital Aid Fund for Employment...
A project to improve knowledge of poverty reduction was held at a workshop in Hanoi on May 24. The event was organized by the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences in coordination with the French Institute of Research for Development and the European...
Vietnam’s prime minister has approved new policies on supporting poor people and ethnic minority households in disadvantaged areas nationwide in the 2013-2015 period. Beneficiaries include farming and forestry households living under the poverty and...
A Vietnamese language program has been opened at the Vinh Loc tourism for more than 150 minority ethnic children in Binh Thuan province. Participants are taught Vietnamese through story telling, singing and dancing. Huynh Sanh Nhan, Deputy Director...
