There was no serious problems reported on the first day of nationwide university entrance exams, Deputy Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Vinh Hien said. Hien said that more than 650,000 candidates in group A subjects (maths, physics, and...
In Hanoi, today July 9, agreement signing ceremony on cooperation building 2010 “Canon friendship school chain” was held between representatives from Canon Vietnam Co., Ltd, Phu Tho, Lang Son and Bac Ninh provinces. Implementing since 2007, the...
The Finance Ministry provided as many as 40,000 tons of rice in aid relief to poverty-stricken households throughout the country in the first half of this year. The rice was taken from the national reserve, which has so far stockpiled more than 140,...
Vietnam’s central province of Phu Yen has started the construction of a reservoir worth VND101 billion from g-bond, for ethnic minority people in Dong Xuan district, the Nong Thon Ngay Nay newspaper reported July 6. The reservoir of 4.5 cubic meters...
A batch of 80 computers and 10 printers has been provided for Vietnam’s northern mountainous province of Bac Kan on July 7, helping the poor province get access to the Internet. The batch is part of a programme, PCs for Life, launched by the...
As many as 5,000 ethnic people including ? ?u, Pu Péo, Si La, R? M?m, C?ng, Braau, B? Y, M?ng, and C? Lao in northeastern provinces will benefit from a project to develop education for ethnic people by the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET)....
Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister-Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem Jul 7conferred with the independent United Nations expert on minorities, Gay McDougall, who is on a ten-day visit to the Southeast Asian country beginning from July 5. At the...
The World Bank (WB) has pledged to finance $185 million for six Vietnamese development funds, aiming to support their financial capacity in investing in urban infrastructure projects. The funds are Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Binh Duong, Dong Nai...
Foreign donors granted a total of $6.8 million in aid to Ho Chi Minh City in the first six months of this year, Nguyen Thi My Tien, General Secretary of the city’s Union of Friendship Organizations, said at a meeting on July 8. Of the total, 60%...
