General News

  • The Southern Institute for Water Resources Planning have made a plan to carry out three irrigation works in the southern city of Can Tho, the southern provinces of Ca Mau and Vinh Long, which are located cities suffered most from flooding in the...
    Monday, 2nd March, 2015
  • Adverse climate change could cost Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand at least $16 billion per year in damage to natural resource assets and infrastructure services, a report has revealed. The report Climate Change in the Lower Mekong Basin: An...
    Monday, 2nd March, 2015
  • The management board of the Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park in the central province of Quang Binh has begun legal proceedings against a violation of regulations on protecting animals in the list of rare species in accordance with Article 190 of the...
    Monday, 2nd March, 2015
  • Vietnam’s Ministries of Finance and Education and Training have jointly issued a circular to offer a number of incentives to encourage Vietnamese to study nuclear and atomic fields, the Thanh Nien newspaper reported. The move aims to promote human...
    Monday, 2nd March, 2015
  • In a major change in Vietnamese education, the national high school graduation and the university admission exams have been fused into one. The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) announced the new policy on Feb 26. The upcoming academic year'...
    Monday, 2nd March, 2015
  • The Netherlands is calling for applications for its Holland Scholarship, which is meant for international students from outside the European Economic Area (EEA). Scholarships for students who want to do their bachelor’s and master’s in the...
    Monday, 2nd March, 2015
  • Delegations from the Steering Committee for southwest region on February 4 visited and presented gifts to poor households in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho and Ben Tre province. The gift packages came on the occasion on the forthcoming traditional...
    Monday, 9th February, 2015
  • Vietnam will make efforts to maintain sustainable poverty reduction as improving people’s livelihood is one of key measures to keep the country’s economic growth and ensuring good social welfare for all walks of life, especially disadvantaged people...
    Monday, 9th February, 2015
  • Central provinces have implemented a program to help students from ethnic minority-populated and disadvantaged areas by granting them automatic admission into universities, colleges and vocational schools, as well as free tuition from the Government...
    Monday, 9th February, 2015
  • Vietnam’s Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh has launched a $10.2 million project to support local small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with the majority of the finance coming from the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development. The...
    Monday, 9th February, 2015