Việt Nam has a great opportunity to use information technology in teaching English since 70 per cent of the country’s population use the internet and broadband internet connection is available in every village, Assoc Prof Dr Nguyễn Văn Long, vice rector of the University of Foreign Language Studies, said yesterday.
The Quảng Nam People’s Committee collaborated with other functional forces to organise rehabilitation exercises for radiation and other nuclear incidents yesterday.
The Ministry of Education and Training recently proposed raising teachers’ salaries, but it’s unclear whether this will be approved given the small portion of the State budget spent on education, according to experts.
Statistics from countries whose senior citizens continue working show no increase in unemployment rate of young workers, an official of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Việt Nam said.
Twelve technology transfer contracts worth more than US$10 million have been signed among scientific application centres nationwide and foreign partners at the technology demonstration and connection conference (TechDemo) in Da Nang, the Department for Technology and Science Application and Promotion under the Ministry of Science and Technology said.
It is estimated that Việt Nam has lost VNĐ45,000 billion (US$2 billion) due to natural disasters this year, Nguyễn Đỗ Anh Tuấn, director of the Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development (IPSARD) under the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development (MARD), said.
The northwest was rich in social-cultural diversity, unique natural attributes and enormous agro-ecological potentials. Its strategic location was within reach of some of the largest and fastest growing regional and local agri-food markets.
Police in northern Hà Nam Province on Thursday arrested a woman for allegedly torturing an infant.
A new book highlighting the history and rich bio-diversity of the Sơn Trà Nature Reserve and public efforts to take on developers and other encroachers there was released on Thursday in HCM City.
The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) on Thursday launched its portal at dvc.molisa.gov.vn, offering better public access to online administrative procedures.
More than 300 restaurants, cafés, bars, hotels and shopping centres are offering free restrooms for tourists in the downtown area od Da Nang as part of an effort to boost hospitality in the central city.
On a recent weekend, Janeth took two children she was taking care of home after watching a movie at the cinema. She then cooked lunch, fed them and tucked them in for a nap before cleaning the house.
Irish Aid will grant 578,000 euros (US$685,000 ) to support ten partnerships between Irish and Vietnamese higher education institutions on teaching and research co-operation during 2017-2018.
The death of four pre-term and low birth weight infants at Bắc Ninh Hospital in Monday, which was said to have been caused by hospital-acquired infections, has raised the alarm about this issue in Việt Nam.
Hundreds of urban design projects in Hà Nội have been put on the shelf for years, forcing many people whose homes would eventually disappear to live in misery.
The Water Resources Directorate (WRD) plans to repair some 700 reservoirs at high risk of bursting by 2030, an official said on Thursday.
The southern province of Bình Dương plans to seek more partnerships with neighbouring cities and provinces, businesses and local and international experts to build a Bình Dương smart city, Mai Hùng Dũng, deputy chairman of the province’s People’s Committee, said at a press conference on November 23.
Advanced training programmes are needed to improve human resources working in the high-tech agriculture sector, experts have said.
The World Wide Fund for Nature Việt Nam (WWF) opened a forest plantation exhibition yesterday on certified sustainable wood furniture.
The HCM City chapter of the Việt Nam Red Cross Society on November 21 organised a ceremony to mark the charity organisation’s 71st anniversary on November 23 in the country and honour 71 philanthropists.
