(LSO) - The General Office for Population and Family Planning held a conference in Lang Son city on December 23 to review the five-year implementation of the pilot population control model in border areas. The conference was attended by Duong Xuan Huyen, Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee and head of Lang Son province’s Steering Committee for Population...

Hanoi (VNA) - Director of the National Archives of Vietnam Dang Thanh Tung and Acting Director of the National Archives of Indonesia M. Taufik signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation in archives in Hanoi on December 23. At the signing ceremony (Photo: baochinhphu) The move was part of activities celebrating the 60th anniversary of President Ho...

Hanoi (VNA) - Hoi An city, central Quang Nam province, is to officially launch tours to Tra Que vegetable village in Cam Ha commune on January 1, 2020, with a wide range of activities set to be on offer for visitors, reported The Voice of Vietnam (VOV). Illustrative image (Photo: dantri) Recent years have seen several travel firms...

Seoul (VNA) – The Vietnamese Buddhist Association in the Republic of Korea (RoK) held a spring festival at Heungryunsa pagoda, Incheon city on the December 21, on the occasion of the upcoming Lunar New Year festival. At the event (Photo: VNA) Speaking at the event, Venerable Thich Quang Thanh, member of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha’s Executive Council thanked...

HCM City (VNS/VNA) - Farmers in the Mekong Delta are growing new flower and plant varieties such as five-fruit trees and rat-shaped plants for the upcoming Tet (Lunar New Year) festival, which falls on January 25 (Year of the Rat). The flowers and ornamental plants for Tet represent Vietnamese hopes for health, happiness and prosperity. (Photo: VNA) In Dong...

Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - The US Agency for International Development (USAID) Wildlife Asia has released new Public Service Announcements (PSAs) as part of the third phase of the Chi initiative – a communication programme to help decrease consumer demand for rhino horn in Vietnam. Delegates launch new Public Service Announcements (PSAs), including images and messages, as part of its Chi...

(LSO) - Many agencies in Lang Son province have switched from single-use plastic water bottles to glass ones in response to the campaign against plastic waste launched by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. Over the past three months, glass bottles have replaced plastic ones at all meetings of residential area no. 2 in Vinh Trai ward, Lang...

Phnom Penh (VNA) – Hundreds of soldiers from the Royal Cambodian Army and the Vietnam People’s Army on December 18 took part in a rescue drill in Chantrea district in the Cambodian province of Svay Rieng that borders Vietnam’s southern Long An province. At the event (Photo: VNA) The drill is to implement a protocol on search and...

Hanoi (VNA) – Chairwoman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front’s chapter in Hanoi (VFF Hanoi) Nguyen Lan Huong held talks with Vice Chairman of China’s Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) People’s Political Consultative Conference Wang Yalin in Hanoi on December 19. At the talks between Chairwoman of the VFF Hanoi Nguyen Lan Huong and Vice Chairman of China’s TAR People’s Political...

Hanoi (VNA) - Representatives of cooperatives and groups of ethnic minority women gathered at a workshop on December 17 to discuss using technology of the fourth Industrial Revolution for business and poverty reduction. Ethnic minority women share the use of technology to connect and promote products at a workshop held in Hanoi on December 17. (Photo: VNA) Applying information...