Local governments in the southwestern region have done well to raise Khmer people’s living standards, said the Southwestern Region Steering Committee at a meeting in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on January 9 to review achievements in 2012 and...
The remaining part of the valuable M’Nong epic story entitled ‘Danh trom ca ho Nglau Lach’ (Stealing Fish in Nglau Lach Lake) has been translated into Vietnamese by the folk artisan, Dieu Thi Mai, from Bu Prang village in Dak Nong province.The first...
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has added Then singing and Long Tong festival – two typical cultural features of the Tay ethnic minority groups in the north – to the list of national intangible cultural heritage.Nguyen Viet Thanh, head...
- U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam David Shear visited the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT) on January 8 to donate blood and encourage others to help save lives by giving the gift of blood before the upcoming Tet holiday....
The World Bank (WB) and the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID) have pledged to provide an additional $9 million for a HIV/AIDS prevention project in Vietnam this year.The funding is expected to help minimize the fatality rate of...
A 12-year-old boy was killed and two others were critically injured Saturday when a war-era cluster bomb they found in a field went off in the central province of Nghe An, the online newspaper Vietnamnet reported.The explosion occurred in Nghi Loc...
Sappers from the Hanoi Capital Command have recently defused a 900kg-bomb in Chau Can commune, Phu Xuyen district, Hanoi.The huge bomb dropped by the US Air Force during the Vietnam War was discovered by construction workers while working on the...
The Overseas Vietnamese Association and the Vietnamese Laborers’ Association in France have recently organized a charitable program at the Vietnamese Cultural Centre in France to raise money for needy people in Ha Tinh province on the occasion of...
Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has urged the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai to define specific priorities in economic development to avoid over-stretching investment and reap the best results.Yen Bai has a total area of 6,886...
Driving over 400km of bumpy road, a delegation of doctors from Military Zone 175 came to Dac Gan Mountainous Commune in Dac Mil District (Dac Nong Province) to provide free health check-ups and medicines for people of the Mo Nong ethnic group.One of...
