General News

  • Basic knowledge of climate change, its impacts and measures to tackle and respond to the issue have been introduced to officials in the central province of Quang Ngai and the northern province of Lai Chau as part of a project supported by the United...
    Monday, 18th January, 2016
  • Vietnam’s central province of Ninh Thuan has taken a series of drastic measures to cope with a prolonged drought. Vietnam to spend $12.7 million fixing drought effects this year Prolonged drought worsens in central region According to the provincial...
    Monday, 18th January, 2016
  • International organizations have helped Vietnam promote energy saving programs to enable the country to implement its target to cut by between 8% and 25% of greenhouse emissions by 2030 as pledged by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung at the 21st...
    Monday, 18th January, 2016
  • The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET), in an effort to reform higher education, is considering shortening the time for education from 4-6 years to 3-4 years. MOET’s plan on reforming the national education system which has been open to...
    Monday, 18th January, 2016
  • The Ministry of Education and Training’s (MOET) decision on setting limitations on universities’ training scale has raised strong opposition from schools. MOET has released Circular No 32 on enrolment quotas for university education establishments,...
    Monday, 18th January, 2016
  • Literacy in Vietnam has reached 97.3 %for those aged 15-50 under the Learning Society Program, the Ministry of Education and Training said on January 13. Deputy Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Vinh Hien said the program has helped raising...
    Monday, 18th January, 2016
  • Localities throughout the country have held a wide range of activities to support Agent Orange/dioxin victims, many of whom live in poverty and suffer from serious diseases as consequences of exposure to the toxic chemical. The Association of Agent...
    Monday, 11th January, 2016
  • The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has raised standards of poor and near-poor households, which will be applied during 2016-2020, with new criteria on income and ability to access to basic services. According to the new standards, a household...
    Monday, 11th January, 2016
  • A ceremony was held in Muong Lay township, the northwestern province of Dien Bien on December 31 to publicize the recognition of the Xoe dance and Kin pang Then ritual as national intangible cultural heritages. The Xoe dance holds an important role...
    Monday, 11th January, 2016
  • PVI Holdings (PVI), BaoViet Insurance Corporation and BaoMinh Insurance Corporation have signed a contract to provide insurance service for package No.3 of the Nhon-Hanoi Station railway. Under the contract signed with the Hanoi Metropolitan Railway...
    Monday, 11th January, 2016