Central Highlands province of Dak Lak has invested VND26 billion ($1.15 million) on drilling bore wells and building water supply projects. The move aims to provide water against drought to save dry plants and help local residents who face shortage...
Frontline enforcement officers from key provinces, ports and border posts in Vietnam, Laos, and China have conducted a field mission, the first of its kind, with an aim to enhance cooperation against inter-boundary wildlife trade. The inter-agency...
The Prime Minister has approved a project on job creation and social integration in Vietnamese vocational schools, which is sponsored by the Italian Government, state media reported. The project is worth nearly EUR5 million, of which EUR3.5 million...
Building workers, while digging foundation for a house at an urban area in My Tho city, Tien Giang province on March 28 found an artillery and a machine gun shell lying at 0.2m under the ground. The shells were identified as being left from the past...
The commune in Thua Thien-Hue Province’s A Luoi District used to be a fierce battlefield in the Vietnam War. Now it is still laden with deadly bombs, mortars, artillery shells and other munitions, Zing.vn reports. Hong Van residents are mostly Paco...
A man in the central city of Da Nang found more than 1,000 bullets apparently left from the Vietnam War under his house on Mar 31. Le Quang Liem, 59, said he hired some construction workers to fix a pipe. The workers found boxes containing the...
Vietnam is one of the most heavily landmine and unexploded ordnance (UXO) affected countries in the world, said Nghiem Dinh Thien, vice director of the Vietnam Bomb and Mine Clearance Action Centre (VBMAC). At a press conference on March 31 in Hanoi...
A ceremony was held on March 29 to inaugurate a VND1.2 billion ($54,000) pre-school in Truong Son commune of Quang Ninh district, one of the most impoverished localities in the central province of Quang Binh. The school consists of two fully...
The north central province of Nghe An plans to increase financial aid to help members of near-poor families buy health insurance over the next few years. The financial assistance will be gradually raised from 10% of health insurance costs this year...
The Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism has been praised for playing a key role in the conservation and promotion of ethnic culture in recent five years.
Ethnic cultural values highlighted
The National Ethnic Village for Ethnic...
