Việt Nam News

Despite having gained access to nearly 200 countries and territories with an annual turnover of US$40 billion, Việt Nam still struggled to sustainably expand and develop markets for its agricultural commodities in harsh conditions.

The number of people accessing to the State’s and community’s priority policies and programmes are increasing, said Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Đào Ngọc Dung.

A programme to train 100 key experts to work on e-Government is scheduled to start on December 20.

The Education and Training Department of Bình Dương Province has ordered headmasters or the school’s legal representative to take responsibility for student transportation and their safety on Thursday morning.

The Japan Environment and Business Organisation (JEBO), which was behind a pilot project to clean up the river and lake this summer, said it was prepared to pay in full for the treatment technologies and would rent them to Hà Nội authorities once they were proved to be successful.

"Organ donations can give life to others. Donating is a good deed we can do after death," says Phạm Hùng, a 12th grader at Nguyễn Du High School in Bà Rịa Vũng Tàu Province.

While most children take school for granted, stepping into the classroom for the first time eight years ago was the best day of Nguyễn Tấn Sang’s life.

The boarding school model, which provides meals and dorm for students, has helped reduce the number of students who drop out of school.

They said an estimated 500,000 Vietnamese transgender people would continue facing direct health threats by using non-prescribed hormone replacement therapy and unsafe surgical services.

Poor environmental conditions cause harm to children’s health and obstruct their cognitive development.

HIV/AIDS remains an important public health problem in Việt Nam with nearly 10,000 new HIV infections and 2,000 people killed by AIDS each year, participants heard on Wednesday at a conference on 20 years treatment of HIV/AIDS in Việt Nam.

Drugs worth billions of đồng have been discovered washed up on beaches in three coastal provinces in central Việt Nam.

NGO Asia Injury Prevention Foundation on Tuesday launched the “Safety Delivered 2019-2020” campaign at Hồ Văn Thanh Primary School in HCM City’s District 12 to raise awareness of road safety and helmet wearing among students in the city and the northern province of Thái Nguyên.

At MindX, which means extraordinary mind, children at primary school or early grade of secondary school like Nam are taught simple programming skills to improve their logical thought and inspire their passion for computers.

Trần Quỳnh Hương, CEO of the National Start-up Fund, and head of Techfest 2019’s international investment pavilion, talks to Việt Nam News reporter Khánh Dương about Techfest 2019’s plans to attract foreign investment and the potentials for Vietnamese start-ups to head overseas.

Việt Nam News talks to Phạm Hồng Quất, head of the National Agency for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialisation Development under the Ministry of Science and Technology, about Techfest 2019 and the Vietnamese innovative start-up eco-system.

The 15th Hà Nội’s People’s Council kicked off its 11th session yesterday, during which the impacts of environmental pollution and urban traffic on local people and measures needed to solve the issues were top of the agenda.

Nguyễn Ngọc Hương of HCM City’s Củ Chi District and her collaborators have jointly set up a start-up to produce freeze-dried powders from vegetables and leaves.