The Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU) and the Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM) have been named among the top 150 Asian universities in the 2016 QS rankings, state media reported. VNU was ranked 139th this year, compared...
The governments of Vietnam and the U.S. have put Agent Orange in their agendas and the U.S. is gradually increasing funding to victims of Agent Orange/dioxin in Vietnam, the newswire Washington Post has reported. The U.S. Congress allocated $7...
A documentary featuring a young victim of Agent Orange, by director Courtney Marsh, will be screened shortly at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Titled “Chau, Beyond the Lines”, the documentary explores how Le Minh Chau realized his...
The Central Highlands province of Kon Tum supported nearly 10,000 ethnic minority and poor households in obtaining housing and farming land and accessing clean water from 2014 to May this year, reported the provincial Committee for Ethnic Minority...
The Prime Minister has just approved a program to enhance the training of the Vietnamese language among ethnic minority children for 2016-2020, with an orientation through 2025. Under the project, communication work will be promoted to raise the...
The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang has been striving to offer improved education and training to the local Khmer ethnic group, with positive outcomes recorded. Kien Giang is home to more than 216,850 Khmer ethnics, who account for about 12.5%...
The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho has kicked off work on the Can Tho Urban Development and Resilience Project worth over $322 million, which is mostly sourced from the World Bank (WB). Huynh Thanh Su, director of Can Tho’s official development...
The EU has launched a project to help Vietnamese phyto-pharmaceutical enterprises enhance competitiveness by bringing their products up to international standards, state media reported. The EUR2-million project, which is operational between 2016 and...
In the first half of 2016, foreign donors committed a total amount of $2.56 billion to Vietnam as official development assistance and preferential loans – an increase of 61% compared to the same period last year. Some $1.85 million will be disbursed...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has proposed a target of 90% of the population to have health insurance by 2020 at a government portal over the weekend, local media reported. Speaking at the event, Mr. Phuc stressed that a well-developed...
