Vietnam is facing a stormy year as the year 2013 has recorded unrelenting and unusual weather phenomena caused by climate change impacts, according to Deputy Director Le Thanh Hai of the National Center for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting. So far...
The Vietnam National University (VNU) has been, for the second time, listed in Asia’s top 250 best universities. According to the World University Rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), the university is also among the regional top 100 universities...
After 2015, primary school students would have 37 learning weeks instead of 35 as currently, while they would have only three subjects instead of eight. The Vietnam Education Research Institute has proposed to re-design the curriculums for primary...
Party leader Nguyen Phu Trong has signed the Resolution on the basic and comprehensive reform of education and training which was brought to discussion during the 8th Plenary session of the 11th Party Central Committee last September. Under the...
Vietnam Red Cross Society’s Hung Yen provincial chapter has launched a program to present heifers to local Agent Orange victims in hopes to partly improve their lives. Under the program, which is part of the ‘Cow bank’ project, 20 heifers worth...
Vietnam has reported 14,500 hungry families with 61,000 starving people in October, down 11.6% and 13% from September, respectively, said the government’s General Statistics Office (GSO). The figures represented on-year decreases of 18.1% in the...
The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang is benefiting from a project on community-based natural disaster mitigation and climate change adaptation. The project has been carried out since last July by the Red Cross Societies of Vietnam, Germany and...
Support policies for children from ethnic minority groups in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai have been implemented effectively to enable them to continue their education. Besides reducing tuition fees, the province has provided additional...
The Central Highlands province of Lam Dong has eradicated hunger and curbed illegal deforestation for cultivation as a result of local efforts to settle ethnic minority people through building infrastructure, contracting them to take care of forest...
The government of South Korea has agreed to fund $3.4 million for a $9.4-billion project on improving occupational safety in Vietnam from September 2013 to September 2016. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Training Center (OSHTC) under...
