More than 30 years ago, a teenaged girl in Ha Noi heard a rousing song calling for the US to pull out of Viet Nam. The tune touched off a heart-warming personal journey, Xuan Hong and Khanh Chi report.

"Can you give me a cigarette?" a stylish woman asks her boyfriend at a birthday party.

Retired reporter Hoang Van Sac has just received a national prize for a photograph he took 39 years ago of 12 young female volunteers levelling a bomb crater.

Nearly 48.353 employees have benefited from vocational and professional consultancy; 60.000 employees have been provided contemporary work abroad, 90.382 women have been introduced to jobs, 44.998 of those have stable jobs.

Divorce is on the rise in Vietnam and attitudes are changing.

The Government will retain its key role in investment in health care in the next 10-15 years, particularly for poor people, said Health Minister Tran Thi Trung Chien in an recent interview with the Vietnam News Agency.

The Vietnamese Government on January 29 issued a regulation instructing assistance to trafficked women and children to reintegrate into the community.

On 24th May 2007, the VWU’s Presidium promulgated the Plan No. 39 for disseminating and educating laws for women in 2007.

Three sets of materials, which were discussed at a workshop for inputs and comments to develop communication materials on Gender Equality (G.E) on 24 May, are G.E Communication Handbook, GE Questions and Answers, and folding paper introducing some regulations on GE violation, G.E in the fields of politics, culture, education, family to name a few.

The workshop “GIPA project (Greater involvement of people living with HIV/AIDS) and Service providers” was held recently by Ho Chi Minh City Women’s Union. Attending the workshop were representatives of GIPA Project’s Central Management Board, Ho Chi Minh WU and agencies and organizations working in the field of HIV/AIDS prevention.