Lights given to encourage ethnic minority students go to school

UNESCO in Việt Nam and Signify Foundation in Việt Nam have provided solar lighting systems and portable solar lamps to more than 5,000 students at 16 secondary schools in remote, disadvantaged areas in three provinces of Hà Giang, Ninh Thuận and Sóc Trăng.

No children are left behind in poorest Yên Bái’s commune

Located hundreds of kilometres from the province’s centre, Chế Tạo is the poorest commune of Mù Căng Chải District, the northern mountainous province of Yên Bái. The local community might be underdeveloped but the children are not uneducated thanks to the efforts of authorities.

More work needed to improve population quality: official

Although Việt Nam has obtained some achievements in improving the quality of its population there still room for improvement, said Đỗ Xuân Tuyên, deputy minister of health.

ASEAN Declaration on Human Resources Development for the Challenging World of Work

The ASEAN Declaration on Human Resources Development for the Challenging World of Work was adopted at the teleconferenced 36th ASEAN Summit on June 26.

36th ASEAN Summit: Chairman Press Statement on Women's Empowerment in Digital Age

The ASEAN Leaders’ Special Session at the 36th ASEAN Summit on Women’s Empowerment in the Digital Age, held on June 26 via videoconferencing, has adopted a Chairman’s Press Statement.

ASEAN works to empower women

Leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will hold a special session within the framework of the 36th ASEAN Summit on Friday to discuss women’s empowerment in the digital age for the first time.

A quarter-billion children getting no education: UN Nearly 260 million children had no access to schooling in 2018, a United Nations agency said in a report Tuesday that blamed poverty and discrimination for educational inequalities that are being exacerbated by the coronavirus outbreak.

VNA Publishing House launches book on female spies

The book focuses on the danger of working in intelligence and while male spies had a lot of difficulties in keeping their activities secret, females suffered much more severe conditions that required them to have an iron will.

Fake news, real consequences Along with many unfortunate events that are going on in the world, it is important to discuss “infodemic” or the fake news issue, a type of online crisis that has very much messed up locals’ lives recently.

Bearing witness to historic Paris peace talks

Dương Thị Duyên, a former journalist with the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) had lived through the most glorious and dangerous times of Việt Nam’s resistance wars against the French and was a correspondent and member of the Democratic Republic of Việt Nam’s negotiating delegation at the historic Paris Conference on the US War in Việt Nam, serving from 1968 to 1970.