The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has organized a three-day workshop in Hanoi to train 30 officials of Vietnam’s Ministry of Finance (MoF) in project management with a focus on procurement skills. This workshop was organized under...
The Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (VAVA) raised more than VND 120 billion for AO victims in the first 10 months of 2012. From 1961-1971, the US troops sprayed more than 80 million liters of toxins, 44 million liters of which...
Two Exploded Ordnance Disposal (EOD) teams from Peace Trees Vietnam have removed two cluster bombs in the central province of Quang Tri province, the teams' head Nguyen Van Cuong told Vietnam News on March 12. The American bombs, discovered in Khe...
Sappers, militia and local people in Phu Tho Province, under instructions of the Provincial Military Headquarters, successfully defused three bombs, weighing from 100 to 750 pounds, on March 14th and 15th. Among the UXOs from the wars between...
A US charity has presented 10 scholarships to poor students who suffer from Agent Orange/dioxin after-effects in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong. The scholarships, each worth VND5 million (about $230), were presented on March 15 in the...
Vietnam has the potential to develop crop biotechnology to help ensure food security, says Nguyen Van Tuat, deputy director of Vietnam Academy for Agricultural Sciences. Speaking at a workshop on global outlook for genetically modified (GM) crops...
Southern Hau Giang Province's police healthcare centre yesterday co-operated with the Can Tho General Hospital to provide free check-ups and medicine for 600 people in Phung Hiep District's Hoa An Commune. The elderly, poor and Khmer ethnic minority...
Vietnam has set a target of reducing the percentage of poor households among ethnic minority groups by 4% per annum by 2020, as part of the newly-approved Ethnic Work Strategy by that year. The strategy aims to raise the quality of material...
Thousands of ethnic students in the northern province of Ha Giang will study in new schools - gifts from the Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade (VietinBank). The bank inaugurated and handed over 11 social works, including...
Provinces in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta, especially Kien Giang, have invested heavily in schools, housing for teachers, and dormitories for students, especially of ethnic minority groups. Dinh Hoa Secondary School in the province's disadvantaged Go...
