About 100 excellent students from 62 universities in Hanoi have participated in the Mock Young Parliament in the Hanoi Law University, which organized by Vietnam Youth Parliament (VNYP). The project, which won the 2016 exchange alumni small grant...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on January 10 afternoon held a welcome reception in Hanoi for Professor Thomas Vallely from Harvard University. Speaking at the meeting, PM Phuc affirmed that Vietnam always has a strong demand for...
The military high command in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong, on January 4, defused a 226kg bomb unearthed in the local Dak Song district. The MK82 bomb is 1.67m in length and 29cm in diameter. It contains 87 kg of explosive substance,...
Sappers in the Central Highland Province of Dak Lak on Jan 6 collected and deactivated about 70 pieces of ammunition, including twenty-one anti-tank shells, forty-five 81mm mortar shells and three M72 shells. The weapons were found underground by...
The Vietnam Red Cross and a group of HCM City officials led by municipal Party Committee Secretary Dinh La Thang visited and presented the Tet (Lunar New Year) gifts to poor households and Agent Orange (AO) victims in Ma Noi mountainous commune,...
Vietnam’s Minister of Defence Ngo Xuan Lich inspected the U.S.-funded dioxin decontamination project currently underway in Danang airport in the central city of Danang on Jan 8. He recognized the significant outcomes in implementing the national...
Poverty reduction programs have had positive impacts on the living standards of ethnic minorities, but the challenge of sustaining the gains remains, experts say. Do Van Chien, Minister and Chairman of the Committee for Ethnic Affairs, said the...
HCM City aims to move all poor and near-poor households, which represent 5.77% of all households, out of poverty by 2020. The target is part of the city’s sustainable poverty reduction program for the 2016-2020 period. The number of poor and near-...
The “Hmong’s Festival in Town” cultural event celebrating the H'mong ethnic group’s traditional New Year will be held at Hanoi University of Culture on January 8. The H’mong ethnic group is also known as the Mong. The event aims to present the Mong’...
Vietnam’s Department of Preventive Medicine under the Ministry of Health on January 3 warned people to take preventive measures as it is highly likely that bird flu will occur in the festive season 2017. As per the department’s warning, people...
