Women should have the same retirement age as men but with a choice of retiring earlier without their pension being affected, Ho Chi Minh City legislators said.

Using body language, disabled children politely serve customers at a coffee bar in Da Lat city, as they cannot pronounce a Vietnamese sentence.

Labor unions should help women get jobs, a Vietnamese labor official said at a conference in Hanoi Tuesday on the role of the unions in preventing trafficking of women and children.

An exhibition entitled “Vietnam – 20 Years of Renovation,” is one of the activities to welcome the upcoming 10th Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam, and opens at the Centre for Culture and Art Exhibition in Hoa Lu street, Hanoi.

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates will meet with Vietnamese students at the Hanoi University of Polytechnics on April 22.

“Patient Support Vietnam” is a German humanitarian group that has financed much needed operations for Vietnamese people with physical deformities.

Vietnam paid more attention than ever to child care and protection and better executed child rights in the 2000-2005 period, said an official of the Vietnam Commission for Population, Family and Children.

A meeting was held by the Ho Chi Minh City Women’s Union in the morning of March 30, 2006 to review communication activities against the abuse of adolescent domestic helpers.

Although women usually play the role of breadwinners in their families, doing strenuous work, old-fashioned thinking that values men above women is still stuck in a rut in some places, reflected by the popularly held idea that men should be taught new farming techniques rather than women.

Vietnamese students prove their international capability with outstanding study achievements abroad.