Mr. Duong Xuan Huyen, Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee spoke at the commendation ceremony On the morning of June 10, the Department of Education and Training held a ceremony to commend and reward outstanding students and teachers in the 2021-2022 school year. Attending the ceremony were Mr. Ho Tien Thieu, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial...

Flexible and effective outreach by 43 local community-based organisations (CBOs) has made significant progress possible in preventing HIV infections and providing treatment for HIV-positive people in Vietnam. Patient monitoring and management at Binh Dinh Province’s HIV/AIDS Prevention Center (Photo: VNA) This, in turn, will enable the healthcare sector to achieve the national goal of ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic by...

A ceremony took place on June 12 to bid farewell to the remaining 156 members of Vietnam’s Engineering Unit Rotation 1, as they left for peacekeeping duty at the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA). Illustrative photo (Source: qdnd.vn) The group was scheduled to move to Uganda first then to Abyei. It was the second deployment of the...

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh held a dialogue with 4,500 workers nationwide on June 12, both online and in-person, with the main site in the northern province of Bac Giang. Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visits workers in Bac Giang province. (Photo: VNA) Earlier, workers from across the country expressed their wish to meet and talk with the...

A new decree raising the regional minimum wage for labourers was approved on June 12 by Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh. Illustrative image (Source: VNA) The new regulation, coded 38/2022/ND-CP will come into effect on July 1. The 6 percent increase is equivalent to a rise of 260,000 VND (11.20 USD) in Region 1, and 240,000 VND, 210,000...

Vietnam is home to nearly 12 million hectares of wetlands or 37 percent of the total natural land area. The majority of these wetland can be found in the Mekong Delta region of southern Vietnam. The Ca Mau Cape National Park was established in 2002. (Photo: VNA) The Mekong Delta counts four Ramsar sites (wetlands of international importance designated...

Over the past four years, the Vietnamese fisheries sector has been implementing recommendations from the European Commission (EC) to fight illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. Illustrative image (Source: VNA) The southern province of Kien Giang, one of 28 coastal localities, has rolled out various policies and activities to raise local awareness of the 2017 Law on Fisheries. Le...

According to information from the General Department of Preventive Medicine, Ministry of Health, from May 13 to June 5, 2022, more than 20 countries around the world recorded cases of monkeypox, including more than 100 suspected cases occurring in countries where this disease is rarely reported. In Vietnam, up to now, there have been no recorded cases of monkeypox....

The UK educational organisation Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) announced its 2023 QS World University Rankings (QS WUR 2023) on June 9, with the Vietnam National University (VNU) - Hanoi and VNU - Ho Chi Minh City, and Duy Tan University holding their places in the 801-1,000 group. An exam at the Vietnam National University (VNU) - Hanoi (Photo: VNA)...

Vietnamese officials affirmed the country’s consistent efforts to guarantee nuclear safety and security and to apply atomic energy in service of sustainable development during a recent meeting with representatives of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The nuclear reactor in Da Lat city (Source: vinatom.com.vn) The meeting took place on the sidelines of the IAEA Board of Governors’ regular...