More than 100 people in Hanoi on November 26 participated in a football festival which aims to popularise a message of putting an end to violence against women and children. Football festival spreads message of ending violence against women, children. - Illustrative image (Photo: https://nhandan.vn/) The Australia-funded event was co-organised by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and...

Officials in charge of front work at the local levels are magnets helping gather and build the national great solidarity in all residential areas and all regions of the country, stated President Nguyen Xuan Phuc at a ceremony in Hanoi on November 27 to honour 299 outstanding Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) officials nationwide. President honours outstanding VFF officials...

Young patients and their families will benefit from the Healthy Lung programme, AstraZeneca’s initiative to improve respiratory disease management in Vietnam. Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) The Healthy Lung programme aims to improve the quality of outpatient management of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in nine Asian countries. Vietnam is among the first countries to implement this programme...

The Ministry of Education and Training has announced that it will propose to Government to increase salaries and preferential allowances for preschool and primary teachers to help them feel secure and stay in their jobs for a long time. A teacher at Hoang Liet Preschool in Hanoi’s Hoang Mai district comforts children on their first day in school....

Vietnam is focusing on developing more green works as an effort to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) This target was committed by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh at the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) last November. Policies have been issued to realise the commitment such as the national green growth strategy and...

The “Run for the Heart 2023”, an annual charity programme which aims to raise funds for children who need heart surgeries, has been launched by VinaCapital Foundation and Gamuda Land Vietnam. At the press conference announcing the event.(Photo: VNA) The programme will conclude with a charity-run event on February 12, 2023 with the participation of up to 10,000 people....

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on November 24 chaired a nationwide teleconference on policy communication. Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the event (Photo: VNA) In his opening speech, the leader said in the process of building a law-ruled socialist State and a socialist-oriented market economy, the Party and State always consider people as a centre, subject,...

Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son and Secretary-General of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) Marcin Czepelak on November 24 cut the ribbon to inaugurate the PCA representative office in Hanoi where the nameplate reads "House of Peace". Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son (third from left) and Secretary-General of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) Marcin...

The 29th Meeting of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) Council was held in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau on November 24 under the chair of Vietnamese Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha. The 29th Meeting of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) Council was held in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau on November...

Identifying cultural staff is an important factor for the task of building cultural life from the province to the grassroots level, in recent years, all levels and sectors in the province have implemented many suitable solutions to make this contingent more and more solid in their expertise, contributing to the strong development of cultural movements in the province. Currently,...