General News

  • More than 10,000 people will join a fundraising walk next week to commemorate the Day for Victims of Agent Orange which falls on August 10. The annual event will be held on August 3 in Dam Sen Cultural Park in HCM City's District 11. It is organised...
    Monday, 29th July, 2013
  • Leaders of Central Highlands localities require issues like farmland, jobs and the lives of ethnic minority groups to be settled promptly and effectively in the coming time. They made the request at a meeting convened by the Steering Committee for...
    Monday, 29th July, 2013
  • The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and 140 representatives of Vietnamese non-governmental organizations (NGOs) gathered at a meeting in Hanoi July 24 to enhance cooperation via a new grant program. The USAID’s Development Grants...
    Monday, 29th July, 2013
  • The World Bank (WB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) have pledged to continue their assistance for Vietnam’s development projects in the years to come, said top executives of the two organizations. WB Group President Jim Yong Kim and IMF...
    Monday, 29th July, 2013
  • Vietnamese authorities have uncovered more and more food and foodstuff samples tainted with banned substances, which are posing great threats to people’s health, warned experts. The environmental police detected 500 cases of smuggled chicken and...
    Monday, 29th July, 2013
  • Ho Chi Minh City, the most populous city of Vietnam, will set up 13 new satellite hospitals in several southern provinces and cities in a move to ease the severe overload at the city’s hospitals. This is part of a national plan to build satellite...
    Monday, 29th July, 2013
  • Work on HCM City's water drainage system has helped to stem flooding this year, but experts warn that more floods of a larger scale could reoccur if serious measures are not taken. According to the city's People's Committee, for the first six months...
    Monday, 29th July, 2013
  • Vietnam needs to build a comprehensive strategy to death with coastal erosion, which results from rising sea levels caused by climate change, according to experts. At a recent meeting in Hanoi, Le Van Cong, deputy head of the Vietnam Administration...
    Monday, 29th July, 2013
  • Representatives from Vietnam and several Asian countries will attend a regional conference on disaster risk reduction and early warning system in Hanoi on July 25-26. The participants include non-governmental organizations and researchers from India...
    Monday, 29th July, 2013
  • Vietnamese Prime Minister Dung has called for a comprehensive restructuring of the national education system to make it more regionally competitive by 2030, local media reported. The government chief made the request during a meeting of the National...
    Monday, 29th July, 2013