• Vietnam gives top priority to gender equality, says official

    The Vietnamese Government has been making every possible effort to boost women’s advancement in all fields, a Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs told the ‘Nora’s Sisters’ seminar in Hanoi on March 27.



  • Vice President hopes for Japanese assistance to deformed children

    Vietnam hopes to receive further Japanese support for patients with cleft palates, said Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan while receiving Yukihisa Hirano, chairman of the Japanese Cleft Palate Association, in Hanoi on February 27.

  • UN aid for population, housing census in VN

    The United Nations will help monitor Viet Nam’s population and housing census to be carried out from April 1-15.

  • Welfare program to meet people’s basic needs

    The government will ensure sustainable assistance to poor people to prevent them from falling into destitution, according to a draft of a 2011-2020 welfare program released by the social affairs ministry Wednesday.

  • Kindergarten kids learn gender equality

    Five-year-old Yen is pretending to be a traffic policewoman, directing her classmates in imaginary cars through an intersection, while in another corner of the kindergarten in Me town a boy plays with plastic dishes and a toy stove.

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