The German Foreign Office and German Conservation Restoration & Education Projects (GCREP) have cooperated to publish books and discs on cultural heritage preservation in Vietnam. The move aims to help the country conserve famous relics,...
The first National Ethnic Representatives’ Meeting will officially kick off in Hanoi May 12 with 1,702 delegates from 54 Vietnamese ethnic groups in attendance, Minister and Chairman of the Nationalities Committee Giang Seo Phu announced May 7. The...
An exhibition on ethnic minority of groups opened on May 9 in Hanoi, highlighting their contributions to national defense and construction. The four-day event, jointly held by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Committee for Ethnic...
The chairman of the Quang Ngai provincial People’s Committee has signed a decision to distribute over VND874 million to districts and cities to provide kerosene oil for ethnic minority people who do not have access to grid electricity in 2010....
More than 6,000 Red Cross officials and volunteers from Ho Chi Minh City and southern provinces joined in a walk to call for joint actions to mitigate adverse impacts posed by urbanization on the human lives. The walk also drew representatives from...
Nguyen Van Con, a resident in the southern province of Tay Ninh’s Thanh Binh commune, has donated about 1,000 sq.m. of land for 12 poor families in his area to build houses. Con also gave money and more land to build a 130-m long road for these...
Engineers on May 5 deactivated a 100kg chemical bomb that was fished out from Dong Tien canal’s 5 meter-deep bed in Long An. Soldiers also discovered two more bombs in this canal. Senior Lieutenant-Colonel Tran Van Dong, deputy director of the...
Engineers on May 5 deactivated a 100kg chemical bomb that was fished out from Dong Tien canal’s 5 meter-deep bed in Long An. Soldiers also discovered two more bombs in this canal. Senior Lieutenant-Colonel Tran Van Dong, deputy director of the...
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will provide $2.4 million for a project to improve training quality of the Tay Bac University in Vietnam’s northwestern province of Son La. The three-year project aims to help the university improve...
The ASEAN Wildlife Enforcement Network (ASEAN-WEN) launched an outdoor media campaign in Hanoi April 28 to raise the public awareness of wildlife trafficking threats in a bid to protect rare animals in Vietnam. Under the campaign, a large Vietnamese...
