General News

  • The Government encourages individuals and organizations to attend in schoolbook compilation on the basic of the nationwide general education program approved by the Ministry of Education and Training. It is part of an action plan issued by the...
    Monday, 16th June, 2014
  • Ever since the war, Quang Tri Province's poor have made a dangerous living selling the unexploded remains of the US's mammoth bombing campaign, but a new program gives them a safer option – planting fungi. “Growing mushrooms suits the disabled...
    Monday, 9th June, 2014
  • Government-enacted credit policies, dedicated to local poor households, have enabled around 10 million families nationwide to access preferential loans, allowing 2.4 million of them to escape from poverty. The outcomes were highlighted in a report...
    Monday, 9th June, 2014
  • Many ethnic residents in Bao Lam District of northern Cao Bang Province, have been able to cultivate wet-rice in place of maize, as part of the district's poverty alleviation efforts. The district, one of the poorest of Cao Bang, has a population of...
    Monday, 9th June, 2014
  • Many ethnic residents in Bao Lam District of northern Cao Bang Province, have been able to cultivate wet-rice in place of maize, as part of the district's poverty alleviation efforts. The district, one of the poorest of Cao Bang, has a population of...
    Monday, 9th June, 2014
  • The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has pledged to assist Vietnam’s central city of Danang in developing public-private partnership (PPP) projects, said Oyama Tomohide, JICA official in charge of Private Sector Investment Finance (PSIF...
    Monday, 9th June, 2014
  • The World Bank has provided more than $382 million for a project to improve infrastructure and living conditions for low-income people in four Vietnamese provinces and cities. At a review meeting in Can Tho on May 30, a WB representative reported...
    Monday, 9th June, 2014
  • Many adults and children in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam have a limited understanding of the risks of sexual abuse. This startling fact is revealed in a new report: “Sex, Abuse and Childhood: A study about knowledge, attitudes and practices...
    Monday, 9th June, 2014
  • June has been designated as the action month for mother-to-child HIV transmission prevention in 2014. Over the month, Hanoi will focus on promoting communication activities in various ways to increase the number of 14 to 49 year old women who have...
    Monday, 9th June, 2014
  • A number of dangerous infectious diseases, including the Middle East respiratory syndrome corona virus (MERS-CoV), are likely to infect Vietnamese people, said a senior official of the Ministry Health. There is considerable threat of epidemics...
    Monday, 9th June, 2014