• Vietnam supports efforts to stop conflicts, protect children

    Vietnam wants to contribute to the full and effective implementation of UN resolutions, including those adopted by the Security Council, aimed at creating “A World Fit for Children”.
  • Vietnamese people diligent, skilful and very creative: diplomat, educator

    Ton Nu Thi Ninh, former Deputy Chairwoman of the National Assembly’s Foreign Affairs Committee, who has been well known in Vietnam and the world as the wonderful diplomat, says that she wants to prove that Vietnamese people are not only industrious and skilful, but also very creative.
  • Women of Vietnam Newspaper: six decades of development

    On March 8th, 1948 the first bulletins credited to a Vietnamese women’s newspaper were circulated in Viet Bac – the holy revolutionary base of Vietnam during the resistance against the French colonialists.
  • Vietnam proud to host Vesak celebrations, says VFF leader

    That Vietnam is selected to host the United Nations Day of Vesak and the fifth International Buddhist seminar is a pride of the whole nation, President of the Viet Nam Fatherland Front (VFF) Huynh Dam has said.
  • Buddhist monks, nuns come home for Vesak

    A senior government official reiterated Vietnam’s policy on freedom of religious beliefs, saying that Buddhism and other religions enjoy equality in development in Vietnam and they have markedly contributed to national development.
  • Law-makers hear revisions on drug law

    Vietnam’s security chief has called for Law on Drug Prevention and Combat revisions and supplements to be considered to provide a legal system able to deal with the realities of combating drugs.
  • Vocational training for ex-drug addicts gains results

    A programme that has established rehabilitation centres, vocational training provision and job generation for former drug addicts in seven provinces and cities has recorded encouraging results after five years of implementation.
  • Yen Bai province benefits from Spain’s ODA

    Northern mountainous Yen Bai province has got better TV programmes from central station thanks to a project funded by the Spanish government.
  • Belgian organisation helps disabled kids

    The Belgium-based Donxa organisation will finance surgeries for 32 poor disabled children in northern Vinh Phuc province, which is estimated to cost two million VND each.
  • ASEAN meets to promote labour safety

    Making national occupational security and hygiene ( OSH ) programmes for ASEAN countries was the theme of an international symposium opened in Hanoi on May 12 with the host Vietnam setting an example.