The seventh women’s forum of Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) was held in Hanoi on June 25 by the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) and the Korean Women’s Development Institute (KWDI).
The northern mountainous province of Yen Bai is working to implement a project to bolster child drowning prevention, said Deputy Director of the provincial Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Nguyen Thi Thu Ha.
The investigation police under the Ministry of Public Security on March 19 prosecuted two more persons on the charge of “violations of regulations on the management and use of public capital causing losses and wastefulness”, under expanded investigation into the case of Phan Van Anh Vu.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has affirmed the Vietnamese Party and State’s consistent policy of ensuring rights of people, including women and children.
The Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) and the Cambodian Women for Peace and Development (CWPD) organised an exchange in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang on February 23 to mark the 40th anniversary of the victory of Vietnam’s southwest border defence war and the fall of the genocidal Pol Pot regime.
Vietnam was awarded more medals from the 29th Southeast Asian Games held in Malaysia in 2017, as athletes of Thailand and the host country tested positive for doping, the Vietnam Olympic Committee (VOC) has announced.
President of the Vietnam Women’s Union Nguyen Thi Thu Ha held talks on November 5 with her counterpart from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Jang Chun-sil on women’s activities and traditional relations.
The International Network of Women Engineers and Scientists - Asia and Pacific Nation Network (INWES-APNN) opened its eighth annual meeting in Hanoi on October 18, drawing over 200 female scientists from Asia-Pacific and representatives from the UN, international organisations and some ministries and agencies of Vietnam.
Despite suffering from 90 percent visual impairment, 37-year-old Truong Phuoc Khai of Hau Giang province in the Mekong Delta has a passion for making books.
The Party Central Committee, the National Assembly, the President, the Government and the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front have issued a special communiqué, announcing that President Tran Dai Quang died at 10:05am on September 21, 2018, and his funeral will be held as a national mourning.
The second Eurasian Women’s Forum kicked off in Saint Petersburg of Russia on September 19, featuring various activities with the aim of promoting unity among women from all over the world.
The Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) and the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) have agreed to intensify cooperation to further tighten the Vietnam-Cuba friendship.
A delegation of the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU), led by its Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Thu Ha, met with Argentine lawmakers and members of the Argentina -Vietnam Parliamentary Friendship Group on July 6.
A massive surge of Hanoians have been flocking to swimming pools in recent days to escape the intense heatwave hitting the north of Vietnam this the week.
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