Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - Vocational training schools in Vietnam will continue to use curricula transferred from Australia and Germany until the end of 2020 and 2025, respectively, following the Prime Minister’s approval to extend the technical vocational education and training (TVET) reform plan. Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) The plan, developed by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs...

Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam is doing very well in the fight against the acute respiratory disease caused by a novel coronavirus (COVID-19), including the repatriation of its citizens, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc affirmed on February 17. Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc speaks at the government meeting. (Photo: VNA) Speaking at a government meeting in Hanoi on the fight,...

Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam has seen positive signs in the fight against the acute respiratory disease caused by a novel coronavirus (COVID-19), heard a meeting of the national steering committee for prevention and control of the disease on February 17. Disinfectants are sprayed on trucks entering Vietnam from a border gate in the northern province of Lao Cai...

(LSO) - A delegation of the Lang Son provincial People’s Committee led by Vice Chairman Ho Tien Thieu inspected the prevention and control of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in two isolation centres in the provincial Military School and Infantry Battalion 1 of the Regiment 123 in Chi Lang district on February 15 afternoon. During the visit, the delegation...

Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of Public Security’s Security Investigation Agency has proposed prosecuting Dinh La Thang, former Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) and nine accomplices on charges of violating regulations on construction works, causing serious consequences at the Petrochemical and Bio-Fuel JSC (PVB) - a subsidiary of this...

Vienna (VNA) – A Vietnamese language course for young Vietnamese generations opened in Vienna, Austria on February 15. Overseas Vietnamese in Austria (Photo: VNA) Speaking at the event, Vietnamese Ambassador Le Dung said apart from Vietnamese teaching and learning, it is necessary to give overseas Vietnamese youths an insight into Vietnam’s traditional culture and inspire their patriotism. He...

Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - Vietnamese businesses have voiced their concerns over the struggle to cope with the coronavirus due to a lack of raw materials. A worker on a production line of Kydo Vietnam Garment Ltd.Co in northern Hung Yen Province. (Photo: VNA) Mai Xuan Duong, President of the Garment and Textile Association in Hung Yen province, said while businesses...

Hanoi (VNA) - Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh has asked the northern provinces of Lang Son and Quang Ninh to resume imports, exports and transport of goods through three sub-border gates in the two localities after a suspension due to the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). At Tan Thanh border gate in Lang Son province...

(LSO) – Facing complex developments of the acute respiratory disease caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus, named COVID-19 by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the health sector of Lang Son province has built four detailed scenarios to gear up for the epidemic. Second scenario activated Director of the provincial Health Department Nguyen The Toan said amid complex and dangerous...

Hanoi (VNA) – Traffic safety nationwide improved considerably in January with sharp declines recorded in the number of accidents, deaths and injured people, statistics showed. Vehicles move on Phap Van-Cau Gie Expressway to Hanoi (Photo: VNA) In January, 726 traffic accidents occurred, killing 526 people and injuring 450 others. The daily averages in the month were 24.9 accidents, 17...