Gong teams from nine mountainous districts of Quang Nam Province and teams from the Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) region and Thua Thien-Hue will take part in the Gong Festival in Nam Giang District on June 21-22. Head of culture and information...
Students from ethnic minority groups will enjoy a special treatment in testing. Under the new regulation of the Ministry of Education and Training taking effect on next March 22, two students of the ethnic minority groups went straight from junior...
Strange Ha Mon religion that was established in the Central Highlands not only spreads superstitions activities, pushes followers’ family to poverty and famine but also set up an armed force to fight against the government. When the government was...
- Australia’s Fred Hollows Foundation (FHF) has provided an additional 117,000 USD for Hue eye hospital in central Thua Thien-Hue province to improve community eye care service. Director of Hue eye hospital Pham Minh Tuong said on February 27 that...
Lao Deputy Prime Minister Somsavad Lengsavath has pledged to assist Vietnamese investors in Laos to boost investment cooperation between the two countries. Mr. Lengsavath made the statement at a meeting in Laos’ southern Attapeu town on February 25...
Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has okayed to extend the completion time to June 2015 for Song Bung 4 hydropower plant in the central province of Quang Nam. No reason was given for the extension of the 156-MW plant, which cost total...
Authorities in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi have approved to allocate additional VND9.66 trillion ($459.33 million) to a project on urban transport development, which is partly funded by the World Bank (WB). The added amount will serve the...
Vietnam has made significant improvements in combating HIV epidemic partly thanks to the support of the U.S. since 2005, a study conducted by the American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed. The study which received support from...
Japan will help Vietnam’s southern province of Binh Duong build a metro route linking it with Suoi Tien in Ho Chi Minh City, said Takumi Onuma, an official from the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Mr. Onuma made the statement...
Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) as the strategic partner will continue giving support to Vietnam Export Import Commercial JS Bank (EIB), or Eximbank, in many fields, affirmed an executive. Hiroshi Minoura, deputy president cum...
