Paris (VNA) – Vietnamese language and culture have been officially included in the teaching programme of Paul-Valéry University, Montpellier 3 in France’s Occitanie region as part of cooperation between the university and the University of Languages and International Studies under the Vietnam National University – Hanoi. Illustrative image (Source: Paul-Valéry University, Montpellier 3) Vietnamese Ambassador to France Nguyen Thiep...

Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - The 13th ASEM Customs Directors-General/Commissioners’ Meeting ended on October 10 in the northern Vietnamese province of Quang Ninh’s Ha Long city, with the approval of the ASEM customs action plan for 2020-21. View of the 13th ASEM Customs Directors-General/Commissioners’ Meeting (Photo: chinhphu.vn) The two-day event - the first of its kind hosted by the General...

Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - Vietnam is attempting to reduce marine accidents and better ensure marine safety to develop the maritime economy. Vietnam is attempting to reduce marine accidents and better ensure marine safety to develop the maritime economy. (Photo: baoquocte.vn) The country is a regional hub with more than 100,000 domestic and international vessels coming in and out of domestic...

HCM City (VNS/VNA) - Private sector investment in social infrastructure is needed to raise the quality of life for workers in export processing zones and industrial parks, Tran Cong Khanh, chief of the secretariat of the Export Processing Zone and Industrial Park Authority. Workers sew products at a company in HCM City. (Photo: VNA) Social infrastructure includes apartment buildings,...

(LSO) - “Promoting gender equality to contribute to reducing sex imbalance at birth” was the theme of a meeting held in Lang Son province on October 8 to mark the International Day of the Girl Child (October 11). The event, organized by the General Office for Population and Family Planning under the Health Ministry and the province’s steering committee...

Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a proposal of the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs on the 2020 Lunar New Year holiday. Peach blossoms is the symbol of Vietnamese Tet (Lunar New Year) in the north. (Photo: VNA) Under the proposal, employees in State administrative agencies, non-productive establishments, political and socio-political organisations will...

Lang Son (VNA) – Raising public awareness of gender equality as well as improving status of women and girls are considered as keys to reduce the unbalanced sex ratio at birth, said Deputy General Director of the General Office for Population - Family Planning Nguyen Thi Ngoc Lan on October 8. Raising public awareness of gender equality as well...

Hanoi (VNA) – A northeast monsoon wave is forecast to hit the northern region on October 12, lowering temperatures by 3 to 10 degrees Celsius, according to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting. A northeast monsoon wave is forecast to hit the northern region on October 12. (Illustrative image. Source: VNA) Temperatures in Hanoi are expected to drop to...

Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam has taken the second spot out of the world’s top 30 countries to work, make friends and raise a family in 2019, according to the US financial and business news website Business Insider. Hoan Kiem lake in the heart of Hanoi (Photo: VNA) “Life in Vietnam is affordable and expats’ disposable income is more...

HCM City (VNA) – The People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City on October 7 sentenced eight defendants to death and another to life imprisonment for trafficking 379 heroin bricks weighing over 132kg and 55kg of methamphetamine. The defendants (in blue) listen to the verdict at the trial on October 7 (Photo: VNA) The nine defendants, born between 1954...