Justice for Vietnamese AO Victims

Sign for Vietnamese AO victims

Some images of the chemical war and Agent Orange victims

Nhan Dan - Heavy rains, lasting unabatedly from June 30 to July 3, caused floods and landslides in Lao Cai province.

Nhan Dan - As many as 598,134 out of 916,405 registered examinees were present on July 3 at 974 examination organisation sites to complete their procedures before their university entrance exams to take today.

Officials at the United Nations Population Fund said on July 2 that Vietnam’s rate of population increase is slowing down. Vietnam’s Total Fertility Rate (TFR) in 2007 was 2.07, its lowest since 1999, marking an 0.2 drop from 2000. Within the ASEAN region, Vietnam’s TFR was lower than Laos (4.4) and Cambodia (3.6).

Nhan Dan – A project on construction of a training centre for trade union cadres under the Lao Federation of Trade Unions has been commenced in the capital of Vientiane, Laos, according to the Vietnam News Agency.

Nhan Dan - Nguyen Cong Ly tells about achievements and difficulties in providing vocational training for young ethnic minority people in Dak Nong province.

Nhan Dan Online - The annual charity golf tournament entitled "Swing for the Kids" recently organised by the Vietnam Investment Review (VIR) newspaper has raised VND 500 million for poor students.

Nhan Dan – As of late May 2008, about 181,600 ethnic minority households with nearly 767,000 people in the whole country still suffered hunger. This is announced at a conference held in Hannoi on July 1 on deploying the Government's Decree 60/2008/NÐ-CP.

Nhan Dan - The Ministry of Health has launched Action Month for Population and Family Panning from July 1 – 31 on the occasion of the World Population Day (July 11).

Nhan Dan Online - Vietnam Military Telecommunication Corporation (Viettel) has committed in partnership with the Operation Smile Vietnam organisation to funding operations for about 100 - 120 children suffering harelips and cleft palates, who are living in the northern rural areas, in July, 2008.

Nhan Dan - Police in the northwestern region uncovered over 4,000 drug trafficking and abuse cases with more than 7,000 people involved between June 2007 and April 2008.

Nhan Dan - The 2008 volunteers' summer campaign was launched in Can Tho city on June 390 by the city's Youth Union.

Nhan Dan - A fund entitled 'one million glasses of milk for poor children' was introduced in Hanoi on June 30 by the Vietnam Fund for Children and the Vinamilk Company.

Nhan Dan - Hanoi authorities launched a campaign to restore order by banning peddling and disorderly vehicle parking on 62 streets and 48 sites in six inner districts on July 1.

The Christina Noble Children’s Foundation, a non-government organisation from the UK, will finance a medical project in Dinh Quan district of southeastern Dong Nai province.

Vietnam has made full use of Japan’s official development assistant (ODA) for its small-sized projects, said Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Mitsuo Sakaba.

Nhan Dan - Two young volunteers' campaigns were launched in Ho Chi Minh City on June 28 and 29 with the participation of around 20,000 local young people.

Nhan Dan/VNA - Hanoi will have two more waste water treatment plants soon, as part of the second phase of a project on water drainage in Hanoi.

Nhan Dan - Over 13,600 free and cheap accommodations have been found for university and college entrance examinees in Da Nang city.

A new Government scheme will train over one million people each year in rural areas until 2020.

A new environmental protection programme titled 'Go Green' will be implemented across the country between now and 2011 for the target of a green Vietnam.

From June 15-26, 2008, a delegation of the Vietnam National Assembly, led by Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong paid official visits to four European countries, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and France. Chairman Trong had an interview with the press after the visit.

Nhan Dan – The Ministry of Education and Training announced that 2,192,312 had registered to take university and college entrance examinations in the 2008-2008 academic year, increase of 18% over last year’s figure.

Nhan Dan – Ho Thi Que, 10th grader from the Bac Ninh Gifted Senior Secondary School, Bac Ninh province, won the first prize of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) letter writing contest in Vietnam.

A group of linguists from Ho Chi Minh City University of Social Sciences and Humanity has developed a new system of written language for the Stieng ethnic minority group.

Nhan Dan/VNA - A survey of Vietnamese families shows that domestic violence occurs in about 20% of marriages across the country alongside an increase in the rate of divorce.

Nhan Dan - Acute diarrhoea reoccurred in three localities, Bac Ninh, Haiphong and Ninh Binh, said the Department of Preventive Medicine and Environment, the Ministry of Public Health.

Nhan Dan - Vietnam's Red Books for 2007 were introduced on June 26 by the Institute of Science and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), reported the Vietnam News Agency.

Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has told the Ministry of Construction that planning for the new Hanoi capital region must be completed within two years.

The Presidential Office on June 24 promulgated President Nguyen Minh Triet’s decision to issue four laws: the revised Law on Oil and Gas, the revised Publishing Law, the Law on Red Cross Activities and the revised Law on Drug Prevention and Control.

Poor households and ethnic minority families in mountainous, island and border areas will have their water subsidies doubled from VND 500,000 to VND 1 million in the State budget.

Nhan Dan – the Vietnam Construction and Import-Export Corporation (Vinaconex) has successful completed the trial run of the whole clear water supply system from the Da River water supply plant in Hoa Binh province to Hanoi.

Nhan Dan - Hung Trang tells about stories about how farmers in Lang Son province have found the ways to get out of poverty.

Nhan Dan - Possible outbreaks of blue ear disease (porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome) in the south has been warned about.

Nhan Dan – The Vietnam Veterans' Association on June 24 held a conference to  evaluate the result of using preferential loans from the Vietnam  Bank for Social Policies and loans from the National Fund for Employment for  the 2003 – 2007 period.

A Buddhist intermediate school has been set up at Vien Quang Pagoda in Chau Doc town, Mekong Delta An Giang province.

Media agencies and localities nationwide have been provided with training documents tailored to strengthen their capacity in drug prevention and control.

The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) has spoken highly of the Vietnam Family Planning Association (VINAFPA) for its activities in reproductive heath care.

Party leader calls on campaigns to focus on public aspirations

Communist Party of Vietnam General Secretary Nong Duc Manh has called on Party campaigners to dig deep into public aspirations to help the Party and the State work out proper policies.

Acute diarrhoea occurs in Bac Ninh

Nhan Dan - Acute diarrhoea has occurred in Bac Ninh province, announced the local centre for preventive medicine.