General News

  • Eight million ethnic minority people across the country are expected to benefit from a project that launched in Hanoi on Jan 19 to promote their land rights. According to research reported at the ceremony, ethnic minority populations live in remote...
    Monday, 25th January, 2016
  • More than 4,600 units and individuals violating natural resources and environment regulations have been punished over the past decade, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) Chu Pham Ngoc Hien said. The...
    Monday, 25th January, 2016
  • Vietnamese students in grades one, two and three have shown signs of improving their reading skills, the Ministry of Education and Training reported. Most notably, when tasked with reading familiar words and reading aloud, students performed better...
    Monday, 25th January, 2016
  • On 21st January 2016, CCWG in cooperation with Department for Meteorology, Hydrology (DMHCC) and Climate Change organized successfully a workshop namely "After COP21: The Paris Agreement and its implication for Vietnam" with a view to share the...
    Friday, 22nd January, 2016
  • On 21st January 2016, CCWG in cooperation with Department for Meteorology, Hydrology (DMHCC) and Climate Change organized successfully a workshop namely "After COP21: The Paris Agreement and its implication for Vietnam" with a view to share the...
    Friday, 22nd January, 2016
  • Military officers in the southern province of Binh Duong on Wednesday successfully moved two general-purpose bombs weighing 226 and 360 kilograms found by locals to a safer place. One bomb, which is an M81, used commonly during the Vietnam War, was...
    Monday, 18th January, 2016
  • Promoting assistance for victims of unexploded ordnances (UXO) was the focus of discussions at a conference held by the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) on Jan 13 in Hanoi. Phan Duc Tuan from the Vietnam Bombs and Mines Action...
    Monday, 18th January, 2016
  • Military authorities transported a bomb, discovered in My Duc District, on the outskirts of Hanoi, to Mieu Mon Military Airfield on Jan 13 to safely destroy it. The bomb was found by Nguyen Van Thanh, a local of Doc Tin Commune, while he was digging...
    Monday, 18th January, 2016
  • 20,000 poor workers in Ho Chi Minh City’s industrial parks and export processing zones were provided with free travel home as the Lunar Year of the Goat comes near-end. This resulted from the program “Affection tickets” aims to ease the workers’...
    Monday, 18th January, 2016
  • Although fifty five years have passed since renowned French anthropologist Jacques Dournes took pictures of the Gia Rai (Jrai) ethnic group in the Central Highlands, the author and his precious photos have not been forgotten. Experts and the public...
    Monday, 18th January, 2016