General News

  • A number of organizations signed a joint action program in Hanoi on May 19 to support farmers affected by drought, saltwater intrusion, and massive seafood death. The signatories include the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee along...
    Monday, 23rd May, 2016
  • A delegation of Vietnamese student attended the International Science and Technology Competition 2016 – Intel ISEF 2016 have brought home four third prizes, according to from Ministry of Education and Training. The prizes were awarded for their...
    Monday, 23rd May, 2016
  • Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on May 16 signed a license to establish the Fulbright University Vietnam in the southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City, nearly a year since the university got its investment license and only a week...
    Monday, 23rd May, 2016
  • Engineers from the Military Command in Haiphong City, in co-ordination with the relevant units and the local authority, successfully removed four bombs to a safe place to defuse them. This information was revealed by Lt Col Dang Ba Nhinh, chief of...
    Monday, 16th May, 2016
  • Vietnam aims to increase the number of ethic minority deputies at the 14th National Assembly (NA) so that the assembly has appropriate representation from all social strata.  Ethnic minorities have been encouraged to participate in the NA...
    Monday, 16th May, 2016
  • The Japanese government has signed agreements to provide a total of $204 million in official development assistance (ODA) for three development projects in Vietnam on the occasion of the official visit of Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida to the...
    Monday, 16th May, 2016
  • Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and Vietnamese Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha on May 5 signed an diploma note over scholarship project for personnel development. The signing ceremony was under the witness of Vietnamese...
    Monday, 16th May, 2016
  • Japan’s Supporting Industrial Development Organization in Vietnam has granted JPY1.5 million ($1.4 million) to Vietnam’s Central Disaster Prevention Support Fund with an aim to help the Southeast Asian country cope with decade-worst El Nino....
    Monday, 16th May, 2016
  • Dozens of delegates from non-governmental organizations in ASEAN members have gathered in Hanoi for a two-day workshop on making policies and sharing experience on gender-based violence prevention. The event with an aim towards an ASEAN without...
    Monday, 16th May, 2016
  • Japan is providing Vietnam with new loans totaling more than JPY85 billion ($781 million) for the development of port and road infrastructure in the rapidly growing Asian nation. The loans are for the development of a major deep-seaport at Lach...
    Monday, 16th May, 2016