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A number of incentives to boost the development of the support industry have been introduced, under a recently approved decree.

The Vietnam Administration of HIV/AIDS Control (VAAC) under the Ministry of Health (MoH) has unveiled a plan to pilot the community-based HIV testing and counseling programme from 2015 to 2017.

A representative of the Ministry of Health confirmed that Quinvaxem vaccine would continue to be used in the national immunisation programme.

The Prime Minister approved the extension of the EU-funded Environmentally and Socially Responsible Tourism Capacity Development Programme till November 10, 2016.

Vietnam’s southern province of Binh Duong and the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s Daejeon city have inked a cooperation agreement for the next five years with a focus on economics, healthcare and education.

A road map of energy efficiency use for the national food-processing industry in the period of 2016 to 2020 is expected to be built following a project presented on October 29 in Hanoi.

The Ben Tre provincial People's Committee has approved a project to prevent erosion, planting 50ha of submerged forests to protect the Thua Duc sea dyke in Binh Dai district.

The national target programme on energy efficiency has achieved satisfactory results in the last five years, according to officials attending a seminar organised in Ho Chi Minh City on October 30.

The ‘Gold Day’ programme will be held at 31 locations from November 14-15 in Hanoi with discounts of up to 50 percent.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh asked ministries and branches to quadruple central budget allocations to disadvantaged border, island and coastal communes for the building of new-style rural areas.

A five-day Vietnam-Belgium educational forum was recently held in Brussels to review the 13-year VLIR-UOS scholarship programme in Vietnam.

The armies of Vietnam and the Philippines see great potential for bilateral cooperation in various fields, including the United Nations peacekeeping.

Twenty-nine outstanding young Vietnamese people and other ASEAN and Japanese youths will take part in the Ship for Southeast Asian Youth Programme from October 27, starting in Tokyo, Japan.

The Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) and the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) signed a cooperation programme by 2018 at their talks in Hanoi on October 26.

The Youth Union should launch a national business start-up programme for young people aiming to create new-styled cooperatives and high-tech enterprises.

Being free to reside, travel and enjoy city life in safety is a legitimate right of all people, especially women who have reason to worry about the possibility of sexual harassment or abuse.

National target programmes should be reshuffled and combined into just two programmes, one on building new-style rural areas and the other on sustainable poverty reduction.

A Master’s Degree Programme between Vietnam and Belgium celebrated its 20-year implementation at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management under the Free University of Brussels on Oct 21.

The Republic of Korea’s (RoK) optical glasses company Davich Optical has carried out a campaign to give eyeglasses to the elderly and children in the southern province of Binh Phuoc.

A selection of three French films across different genres will be introduced to Vietnamese audiences at the French Cultural Centre in Hanoi.