In Yen Ha prison in the northern mountainous province of Son La, a special class is spearheaded by a young teacher, Chu Thi Thu. Her goal is to provide inmates with the ability to read and write.
The Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC), in coordination with several UN agencies and international organisations in Vietnam, held a conference on digital literacy on October 13.
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Bangkok and neighboring provinces are initiating a programme to develop Thai language and computer literacy skills among migrant workers.
Vietnam’s education development on the foundation of building a learning society has been on the right track, helping Vietnam to make great progress in illiteracy eradication and education universalisation.
Literacy classes have been organized for more than 300,000 people aged 15 – 60, over the last eight years, the Ministry of Education and Training unveiled during a recent video teleconference (VTC).
Vietnam News Agency’s special anti-fake news project was named Best Project for News Literacy within the Asian Digital Media Awards 2020 by the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) at WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Asia 2020 event on October 15.
A project on fighting fake news by the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) has been named Best Project for News Literacy, one of ten categories within the framework of the Asian Digital Media Awards 2020 presented by the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA).
A special anti-fake news project from the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) has been named Best Project for News Literacy within the Asian Digital Media Awards 2020, organised by the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA).
The Indonesian government is committed to accelerating a “national digital transformation” through five priority programmes, Indonesian Communication and Information Minister Johnny G. Plate has said.
Health literacy can contribute to reducing disparities among different groups of people in accessing universal healthcare services, Professor Dianne Levin-Zamir from Israel's University of Haifa said at an international conference held in Ho Chi Minh City on November 11.
An event to raise investors’ financial literacy was held by the HOSE and The Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HoSE) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) in Ho Chi Minh City on September 30.
The Ministry of a Digital Economy and Society is encouraging safe online media use and discretion, before sharing with the country’s youth the Stop Fake News seminar, promoting online media literacy with a LINE partnership.
Unlicensed books are too sophisticated that publishers sometimes cannot distinguish between real books and fake ones, while the number of management staff remained few.
An Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) workshop was held in the northern province of Quang Ninh on April 12 to seek ways to advance inclusive development through enhancing women and girls’ digital literacy and related skills in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
At least 4,000 ethnic minority children aged three to six have benefited from the pilot of the Emergent Literacy and Math (ELM) toolkit to build foundational reading and math skills.
Investment in health literacy would be a useful initiative in Vietnam and other ASEAN countries to help reach health goals, according to Asian Health Literacy Association.
Experts from the US, Australia, Thailand, Mongolia and Vietnam gathered at a conference in Hai Phong on Nov 7 to discuss ways to promote health literacy and quality of healthcare services in Vietnam.
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