Vietnam elected to UN Women’s Executive Board for 2025-2027

The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) on April 9 (US time) elected Vietnam to the Executive Board of the United Nations Entity for Gender...

Enhancing relations between Vietnamese and Finnish women

On March 25, 2024, Vice President of the Vietnam Women's Union (VWU) Tran Lan Phuong had a meeting with Ms. Inka Hopsu, member of the Finnish Parliament and...

Vietnam Women's Union extends condolences to Russian partners

On March 25, 2024, President of the Vietnam Women's Union (VWU), Ha Thi Nga, on behalf of the Vietnam Women's Union, sent letters of condolences to its...

Capacity building and business development support for women-owned enterprises

In the morning of March 25, 2024, the Center for Women and Development (CWD) launched the project “Accelerate My Business: Capacity building and support for...

A billionaire’s dream: Bridging Vietnam with the World

The female billionaire Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao has shown that with talent, hard work and a bold heart to dream and make the dreams come true, any women can...
  • Vietnam advances to regional women’s football champs

    Vietnam secured a berth in the final round of the Asian Women’s Football Championships 2010, after it crushed Hong Kong 7-0 in a Group C match on July 8.

  • President praises volunteers’ contributions to nation

    President Nguyen Minh Triet extolled great contributions of young volunteers to the country’s liberation cause at a ceremony held in central Quang Binh province on July 11 to pay gratitude to former volunteers who sacrificed their lives during the...
  • Women’s union targets rural jobs

    The Viet Nam Women’s Union aims to provide free vocational training courses and create jobs for more than 150,000 women in rural areas in the country every year until 2015.

  • Vietnamese women win gold in regu event

    Vietnam’s women’s team won a gold medal in the regu event at the King;’s Cup World Sepak Takraw Championships in Bankok, Thailand on July 6.

  • Focus on girls in world day against child labour

    Poverty has long been blamed as the main challenge of Viet Nam’s efforts to eliminate child labour and empower young girls
  • Movement ‘compassionate jar of rice’ helps thousands of poor families in Gia Lai

    Nhan Dan – In response to the campaign “Study and Follow the moral example of Ho Chi Minh’, women from Gia Lai province have launched the saving movement in the diverse and plentiful forms, contributing to helping local poor women to improve their...
  • Ha Long tops new 7 wonders

    Ha Long Bay, one of Vietnam’s two UNESCO natural world heritage sites, is leading the list of 11 candidates of Group G in the second phase of campaign voting for seven new world wonders of nature.
  • Xoan singing proposed as part of world cultural heritage

    The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has asked the Prime Minister for permission to prepare a file to be submitted to UNESCO to gain recognition for the traditional Xoan singing of Phu Tho province as a part of the world’s cultural heritage...
  • Vietnam responds to World Population Day

    Investing in women is a smart choice, said United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Vietnam Representative Bruce Campbell at a press briefing held in Hanoi on July 2 by the Ministry of Health in response to World Population Day (July 11).
  • Than secures second silver for Việt Nam

    VietNamNet Bridge - Ca Thi Than secured the silver medal in the girls’ 800m at the Asian Youth Games on July 3 in Singapore.