General News

  • 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
  • Nguyen Van Dua, vice secretary of the Party Committee in Ho Chi Minh City, has asked all agencies and departments to take special care of the poor and impoverished during the Tet Lunar New Year festive season.He has asked leaders of all departments...
    Monday, 17th December, 2012
  • Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc called for the improvement of free legal services available for the poor at a conference hosted by the Vietnam Justice Support Association for the Poor (VIJUSAP) in Ho Chi Minh City on December 15.Addressing...
    Monday, 17th December, 2012
  • An Italian man has spent around 6 years with passion visiting many villages in the Central Highlands to study Gongs, a typical musical instrument used in the festivals of ethnic people in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, for his PhD thesis.32-year-...
    Monday, 17th December, 2012
  • - Eighty outstanding students from Ho Chi Minh City have been granted the Japan-Vietnam Human Resource Development Scholarship for the 2012-2013 academic year. At the scholarship award ceremony held in the city yesterday, the Japanese Business...
    Monday, 17th December, 2012
  • The Vietnamese government needs to take bold measures to restore business confidence, which saw a dramatic decline this year, Dr. Edmund Malesky, an advisor to the U.S. Agency for International Development said. Mr. Malesky, a lead researcher of the...
    Monday, 17th December, 2012
  • The Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH) and the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in which KITECH will help the Vietnamese city develop a technological incubator in the Tra Noc 2 Industrial...
    Monday, 17th December, 2012