General News

  • Vietnam’s Mekong Delta is facing the most severe drought and salinization in nearly a century, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. The serious conditions have occurred only once in the last 90 years, the ministry said at...
    Monday, 22nd February, 2016
  • Leaders of the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) and the Vietnam Education Publishing House have recently confirmed that there is no such thing as two separate textbooks for the northern and southern parts of the country, state media...
    Monday, 22nd February, 2016
  • Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has made changes to the university and college entrance exams for this year in order to improve the quality of the most important test for students nationwide, state media reported. First, there is...
    Monday, 22nd February, 2016
  • A former software engineer who worked overseas, Khoa is now an AO victim and ailing Parkinson’s patient, turning bomb shells into unique music gifts for locals and tourists in the UNESCO-recognized Hoi An Ancient Town. Pham Nhu Khoa, 56, who lives...
    Wednesday, 17th February, 2016
  • The Prime Minister has agreed to add 2,275 disadvantaged villages in 48 provinces and cities nationwide to the investment list for Program 135 in the 2016-2020 period. Of those, 2,240 will receive investment sourced from the State budget, while the...
    Wednesday, 17th February, 2016
  • The Project Management Unit 1 under the Ministry of Transport is seeking to borrow VND6.31 trillion ($280 million) from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for the Ninh Binh-Thanh Hoa Expressway. In mid-January, Prime Minister Nguyen...
    Wednesday, 17th February, 2016
  • The prime minister has approved a plan on using and managing official development assistance (ODA) and soft loans in the 2016-2020 period, prioritizing funding for infrastructure, human resource and climate change. The ODA is expected to help boost...
    Wednesday, 17th February, 2016
  • As many as 17,000 women received breast cancer examinations during the past three years in Vietnam, as a result of a breast cancer prevention and control project, the results of which were released at a conference on Friday. It was Vietnam's first-...
    Wednesday, 17th February, 2016
  • Since the MERS-CoV, the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome caused by the Corona virus that has spread to over a dozen countries in the world and may penetrate into Vietnam, the Ministry of Health yesterday sent an urgent dispatch to Pasteur Institute...
    Wednesday, 17th February, 2016
  • Vietnam’s Ministry of Health is coordinating closely with relevant sectors to keep tourists from Zika virus-affected countries under strict monitoring, aiming to prevent the virus from entering Vietnam, reported an online conference in Hanoi on...
    Wednesday, 17th February, 2016