General News

  • Vietnam will allocate VND5.8 trillion from the state budget for the education and training sector this year, rising 5.4% over the previous year, in an effort to further improve its quality.  Of the figure, regular spending is VND4.83 trillion,...
    Thursday, 16th February, 2012
  • The Australian Agency for International Development will grant 250 scholarships to Vietnamese citizens for their postgraduate studies in this country next year. The Australian Development scholarships aim to increase the capacity and leadership...
    Thursday, 16th February, 2012
  • Vietnam and Laos will increase the quality and efficiency of bilateral cooperation in education and human resource development in the 2011-2020 period. This is part of a cooperation agreement signed in Vientiane on February 9 between Vietnamese...
    Thursday, 16th February, 2012
  • The World Bank (WB) in collaboration with authorities in Vietnam’s southern city of Can Tho held a conference on Feb 8 to outline measures to deal with the negative impacts of climate change in the coming years. Local authorities should combine...
    Monday, 13th February, 2012
  • Vietnam is likely to dump 44 million tons of solid waste per year by 2015, greatly threatening environment and community health, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) said. The figure was released by MoNRE in a report on...
    Monday, 13th February, 2012
  • Vietnam is listed in the top ten nations with the worst air pollution level in the world, an annual environment report by U.S. universities released at the World Economic Forum 2012 in Davos, Switzerland showed. The study entitled the 2012...
    Monday, 13th February, 2012
  • The People’s Committee of the southern province of Vinh Long announced that the province would spend VND 42.5 billion building safe water infrastructure in rural communes. Accordingly, 18 safe water projects will be built, upgraded and expanded in...
    Monday, 13th February, 2012
  • The Vietnamese Ministry of Health’s Health Examination and Treatment Department has proposed to invite foreign health experts to define the cause of strange skin disease in the central province of Quang Ngai. The province has recorded 106 people...
    Monday, 13th February, 2012
  • The Vietnamese National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology will make A/H5N1 flu vaccine for humans in 2013, Nguyen Tran Hien, head of the institute, confirmed. The institute is conducting the third stage of the vaccine testing in humans, which is...
    Monday, 13th February, 2012
  • Vietnam’s Ministry of Transport has proposed to the government to provide additional $205 million for transport infrastructure development project using loans from the World Bank and non-refundable loans from the Australian government. With the...
    Monday, 13th February, 2012