Vietnam is currently focusing on law enforcement and awareness raising campaigns to reduce the illegal trade and consumption of wildlife, a senior official from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said. Speaking at an APEC workshop on...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has submitted to the National Assembly (NA), the country’s highest legislative body, a plan to compile textbooks until 2021 with a cost of VND779 billion ($37 million). The money, which will...
Vietnam and Mexico agreed to boost bilateral ties in the field of higher education during a recent working session between senior officials of the two countries’ education ministries. The meeting took place as part of the Mexico trip by Vietnamese...
Vietnam has held a series of activities to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the death of Nguyen Van Troi, who tried to kill former U.S. Defense Minister Robert McNamara by mine in 1964, state media reported. The activities were conducted on Oct 15...
Two scrap metal collectors died and another was left seriously injured when a war-era bomb in Vietnam's Central Highlands exploded, police said on Oct 16. The accident happened last week when the men, aged between 31 and 35, found the 1-metre bomb...
A total of VND52.433 billion ($2.5 million) was raised to support needy households in Hanoi at the launch of the campaign “Days for the Poor” Month on October 15. The campaign, which lasts until November 18, is to call for more people to join hands...
The poverty rate as of the end of 2013 dipped to 7.6% thanks to Party and State policies for boosting socio-economic development along with the contribution of the whole society. Deputy Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs Nguyen Trong Dam...
The implementation of ethnic minority and new-style rural building policies in the Southwestern Region has started to show positive results, representatives from the Regional Steering Committee and the National Assembly’s Ethnic Council concluded in...
Tac Xinh dance of the San Chay ethnic minority people in Phu Luong district, the northern province Thai Nguyen was declared a national intangible cultural heritage on October 16. Tac Xinh dance is a form of performing that has been preserved and...
The European Commission (EC) has signed an agreement to provide Vietnam with EUR400 million in development aid from now to 2020 during the recent talks between EC President Manuel Barroso and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in Brussels....
