Vietnam welcomes the proposal on establishing a Vietnam-Japan University in Hanoi to train workforce for the two countries’ business communities, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung. PM Dung, who wrapped up a four-day visit to Japan on Dec 15, made...
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved the international integration scheme for education and vocational training by 2020 with the aim of improving the quality of the sector, which ranks nearly bottom in the ASEAN. Under the scheme, Vietnam...
Over 700 households across four districts in the central province of Quang Tri, one plagued by unexploded ordnance (UXO) left over from the war, have benefited from a sustainable agriculture development project funded by the US’s non-governmental...
The Vietnamese Party and State have always given the top priority to sustainable and comprehensive poverty reduction in their development policies with a view to ensuring human rights and implementing Millennium Development Goals set by the United...
In 2013, the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong has seen 5,700 households escaping from poverty, including 3,800 households from ethnic minority groups. With the figure, the population living under the poverty line in the locality shrank to 4.3...
The Irish Government has pledged a funding of nearly EUR13.3 million ($18.2 million) to poverty reduction program 135 in eight Vietnamese provinces during the 2013-2015 period. Under an agreement to this effect signed in Hanoi on December 13, the...
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved an action program for ethnic minorities in disadvantaged areas through 2020. The program will develop policies to encourage enterprises to provide vocational training and jobs to ethnic minorities well as...
HCM City has approved a tuition-fee exemption for Cham and Khmer ethnic students attending the city's public schools, through kindergarten to high school. The fees will be exempt from next year to 2020. The municipal administration has told the...
The U.S. and the UN Food and Agriculture (FAO) as well as the international community will assist Vietnam in restructuring its agriculture in a bid to help the country integrate into the world, said American Ambassador David Shear to the communist...
The Vietnamese government has asked President Truong Tan Sang to approve a loan agreement between Vietnam and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for a project to upgrade transport infrastructure in the Mekong Delta region, where there is a dense...
