General News

  • More than 200 delegates from Vietnamese and German agencies and businesses gathered in Ho Chi Minh City on April 21 for the first Germany-Vietnam economic conference on climate change and energy. The conference was part of the “Germany Year in...
    Monday, 26th April, 2010
  • German Ambassador to Vietnam Rolf Schulze will grant 87 scholarships to Vietnamese outstanding university graduates and scientific researchers today [April 19] in an effort to help them continue their studies in Germany. The scholarships are funded...
    Monday, 26th April, 2010
  • Vietnam will host an International Biology Olympiad in 2016, said the Government Office. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has assigned the Ministry of Education and Training to work with agencies and localities to map out a plan to hold the event, the...
    Monday, 26th April, 2010
  • Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training has announced it will provide 75 scholarships for post-graduate study in India under a technical and economic co-operation program for the 2010-2011 academic year. The Indian government will finance...
    Monday, 26th April, 2010
  • Cisco Systems Inc. signed a memorandum of understanding with the central city of Danang on April 22 to upgrade its information technology network. Under the MoU, Cisco will help Danang build a center for researching, developing and manufacturing hi-...
    Monday, 26th April, 2010
  • The Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs (COVA) will cooperate with other agencies to carry out a pilot program to promote mother tongue language teaching abroad this year, said Deputy Director of the Vietnamese Overseas Authority Dang The Hung...
    Monday, 26th April, 2010
  • Vietnam and Singapore will offer courses to train 17,000 Vietnamese principals and educational managers in June in an effort to help them improve their management skills. The candidates will attend the ten-day training course at the Vietnam National...
    Monday, 26th April, 2010
  • Up to 81.6% of children aged 4 to 8 in Vietnam are suffering from tooth decay, a survey conducted by the Odonto-Maxillo-Facial Training Institute under Hanoi Medical University showed. The institute conducted the survey in the provinces of Lang Son...
    Monday, 12th April, 2010
  • Ho Chi Minh City sent nearly 1,400 female health workers abroad for further training in the past five years, state media reported, citing the municipal health authorities. The figures were released at a conference to review the results of a program...
    Monday, 12th April, 2010
  • Vietnam has been warned of increasing numbers of hypertension patients aged more than 25, showed a survey by the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Hanoi, Thai Nguyen, Thai Binh and Nghe An. The information was released at a conference on reviewing a...
    Monday, 12th April, 2010