General News

  • A total of 161 Vietnamese citizens will start their post-graduate studies in Australia from early next year under the Australian government’s scholarship program. They include 117 recipients of Australia Awards Scholarships, of whom two are the...
    Monday, 1st December, 2014
  • Over the past years, the Quang Binh provincial Association of Victims of Agent Orange (AO) has exerted great efforts in calling on support for AO victims; notably the building of the fund for the victims worth nearly VND18 billion. Since 2009, the...
    Monday, 24th November, 2014
  • The German Ministry of Foreign Affairs has funded a number of projects to help the central province of Thua Thien-Hue disarm unexploded ordnances (UXOs) left over from the war. In March 2014, the ministry pledged EUR257,911 to implement a project...
    Monday, 24th November, 2014
  • The adoption of the Rome Declaration on Nutrition and the Framework for Action will serve as a direction for the sustainable development of agriculture, food and nutrition security in Vietnam , Ambassador to Italy Nguyen Hoang Long has said. The...
    Monday, 24th November, 2014
  • The Ministry of Justice and the Government Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs will work together on legal documents and projects related to ethnic minority groups under an agreement recently signed in Hanoi. According to the plan, the two...
    Monday, 24th November, 2014
  • The Ministry of Justice and the Government Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs will work together on legal documents and projects related to ethnic minority groups under an agreement recently signed in Hanoi. According to the plan, the two...
    Monday, 24th November, 2014
  • The 6th Culture, Sports and Tourism Festival of the Khmer ethnic people in southern Vietnam will commence on November 27 in Hau Giang province. The three-day event aims to honor and promote the culture of the Khmer people to domestic and...
    Monday, 24th November, 2014
  • The government of Germany has provided a non-refundable aid worth EUR8 million for a project on forest ecosystem protection and management in Vietnam. The German Reconstruction Bank (KfW) will grant the amount of money after signing an agreement to...
    Monday, 24th November, 2014
  • The Vietnamese Ministry of Health has ruled out concerns about BCG vaccine, which protects against tuberculosis and was administered this month to three infants in the northern region of Vietnam, who died soon afterward. Investors have yet to find a...
    Monday, 24th November, 2014
  • The Ministry of Health recommends the public to strictly follow precautionary measures in order to prevent the A/H5N8 bird flu strain, which currently occurs in poultry in several European and Asian countries, from infecting humans. People are...
    Monday, 24th November, 2014