Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has requested Ministries and sectors to accelerate the building of action plans for implementing the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
A television programme “Hanh trinh reo cao” (Journey to high mountainous areas) designed for very small ethnic minority groups in Vietnam is to be aired on the VTC channel from January 2,2016.
The Promotion Fund for Vietnamese Football Talents (PVF) has completed negotiating the final article in their contract to cooperate with Japanese Gamba Osaka FC in a youth training programme.
Vietnam has been free of polio since 2000 and tetanus at birth since 2005 thanks to locally-made vaccines that have been used in the nationwide expanded immunisation programme.
Da Nang is striving to become a sustainable urban area which has international competitiveness and holds its own identity in comparison with Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
A seminar was held in the northern province of Lang Son on December 22 to review policies and laws relating to poverty reduction for ethnic minorities during 2011-2015.
Vietnam has seen great achievements in researching and producing vaccines, especially the production of 10 out of the 11 kinds mentioned in the nationwide expanded immunisation programme.
As many as 747 ICOM radio devices have been offered to fishermen from 24 coastal localities nationwide at a ceremony held in the southern central province of Binh Thuan on December 21.
The State Steering Committee on National Mine Action Programme called on donors and non-governmental organisations to constructively take part in the Mine Action Partnership Group (MAPG).
More than 1,600 primary school students in Thanh Oai and My Duc districts on the outskirts of Hanoi are now more aware about conserving water thanks to an education programme.
Dong Nai is moving fast on the path to the new-style rural province status by 2020 when its six more communes have satisfied all the 19 countryside development criteria.
The Australian government will provide 1 million AUD (720,000 USD) in annual aid for Vietnamese and Australian scientists to carry out joint medical and health care research projects.
More than 200 drivers were caught on camera violating traffic regulations, the Hanoi Traffic Police Division reported 10 days after the surveillance camera programme went into effect.
A joint project between Vietnam and Cuba on rice production has established 54,000 rice cultivation models with an average yield of 4.36 tonnes of rice per hectare.
As many as 24,000 breeding cows worth 360 billion VND were presented to poor households in 11 border provinces nationwide under a programme initiated in June 2014.
President Truong Tan Sang made a fact-finding tour of the community-based culture-tourism village in Phuong Do commune in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang on December 10.
US Senators have introduced a resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act that would nullify the USDA final rules establishing the catfish inspection programme.
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