A series of earthquakes repeatedly occurred in the surrounding areas of a hydropower plant in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Nam with the latest on July 8 was 3.6 on the Richter scale. The earthquakes happened in Bac Tra My district which is...
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) launched its first-ever Biodiversity Policy in Washington on July 8, setting forth an ambitious vision of conserving biodiversity globally, including Vietnam. Under the new policy,...
More than 200 college and university students throughout the country will receive one-year student grants of $294 from the German State of Hessen's Ministry of Science and Arts, according to a representative from the Hessen office in Hanoi. The...
Thai Siam Cement Group (SCG) on July 11 in coordination with Tuoi Tre Newspaper and the Hanoi Youth Union presented scholarships to 50 poor high-school students excelling in their studies. Earlier on July 4, SCG and Tuoi Tre newspaper granted 350...
Japan’s Fujitsu-JAIMS Foundation is offering scholarships to Vietnamese students to attend a management program entitled “Global Leaders for Innovation and Knowledge”. The four-month training course features a multi-campus network in Japan, the U.S...
Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan, Chairwoman of the Vietnam Children Support Fund Council, on July 12 presented scholarships within the program “Together with children to school” to needy students in Thua Thien-Hue province. The scholarships, aimed to...
Vietnam will cooperate with the U.S. to promote the search for remains of American servicemen who died during the Vietnam War, Nguyen Chi Vinh, Vietnamese deputy defense minister, said at a meeting with a U.S.’s deputy assistant secretary in Hanoi...
The private sector should be encouraged to work with the rural and ethnic poor, country director of the Swiss Agency for Development and Co-operation in Viet Nam, Samuel Waelty, said yesterday. Speaking at a workshop, Waelty said this could be a...
The implementation of ethnic work in the central and Central Highlands regions was reviewed at a conference held in the Central Highlands city of Buon Ma Thuot on July 1. The ethnic work is always considered as a vital part of the national socio-...
The Central Highlands provinces are working to provide farming land for poor people from ethnic minorities as a main source of their livelihood to secure stable incomes. According to the Steering Committee for the Central Highlands, there are 31,800...
