General News

  • Almost 200 high school students in Hanoi attended a month-long ‘food project’ to collect enough leftover food from hotels and restaurants for 1,500 rations to donate to poor inpatients in hospitals and other needy people in slums in the city.The...
    Wednesday, 2nd January, 2013
  • The Northern Power Corporation under the Electricity of Vietnam (EVN NPC) on December 22 began providing electricity from the national grid to 121 households in Buot village, Tan Xuan commune, Moc Chau district in the northern mountainous province...
    Wednesday, 2nd January, 2013
  • The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed three loan agreements totaling $245 million on Dec 21 to help Vietnam improve education, energy supply and natural disaster risk management.Of the sum, $110.19 million will...
    Wednesday, 2nd January, 2013
  • South Korea will provide $1.2 billion in official development assistance (ODA) for development projects in Vietnam in the 2012–2015 period under an agreement signed in Hanoi on Dec 21.The agreement was signed by Vietnamese Minister of Planning and...
    Wednesday, 2nd January, 2013
  • Sixty-two photos depicting the Mine Advisory Group (MAG)'s activities to clear unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Viet Nam are on display in HCM City.The photos taken by photographers Sean Sutton, Aidan Dockery and Na Son also depict the communities in...
    Monday, 17th December, 2012
  • The People’s Army Newspaper (PAN) has recently organized a fact-finding tour for newspaper and television correspondents to disseminate information on the consequences and clearing of bombs, mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) in provinces of the...
    Monday, 17th December, 2012
  • The centre for locating and disposing of bombs under the Ministry of National Defense neutralized a 340-kilo unexploded bomb two days ago.Believed to be left over from the war, the bomb was found on December 9 in Hoa Quy Ward. It will be dissolved...
    Monday, 17th December, 2012
  • A workshop to enhance partnerships in post-war action against mines in Vietnam was held in Hanoi on December 14 as part of the national action plan to manage unexploded ordnance between 2010 and 2015 (Program 504).The event attracted representatives...
    Monday, 17th December, 2012
  • Not only winning popularity in Can Tho City and surrounding localities in the Mekong Delta as an acupuncturist of poor patients, he has turned many of his patients into volunteers to help others in his free-of-charge clinic.He is Nguyen Van Phuc,...
    Monday, 17th December, 2012
  • Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan has used December 10 to announce the grants of 140 scholarships, worth VND3 million each, to disadvantaged children in the northern Tuyen Quang province.She praised the province’s education efforts and urged local...
    Monday, 17th December, 2012