The Ministry of Culture, Sports and
Tourism (MCST) and the European Committee (EC) granted equipment worth
over 572,000 EUR to nine tourism training schools nationwide at a
ceremony in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong on Sept. 10.
The Ha Tinh provincial museum said on
September 7 that it has discovered four wood blocks engraved with
ancient Chinese script and a monolithic statue, which are thought to
date back to the 18th century.
The Republic of Korea ’s resumption of recruiting foreign guest
workers under the Employment Permit System (EPS) Programme on Sept. 1,
after a three-month halt due to the global economic recession, has
created better conditions for Vietnam ’s labour exports.
Vietnam ranks third after China and
India for outsourcing IT and software services to Japan, accounting for
0.5 percent of Japan’s market share, according to Nguyen Doan Hung,
vice-chairman of the Viet-Nhat (Vietnam-Japan) IT cooperation club.
The number of foreign tourists to Vietnam in August reached
315,000, up 16 percent over the previous month, reported the General
Statistics Office (GSO).
Twenty-three students with disabilities
have completed a graphic technicians course held by the Hi-Tech
Vocational Training Centre, an arm of the public funded Van Lang
University in Ho Chi Minh City.
The Hanoi Independent Living Centre for
the Disabled began a new training course for disabled people to help
them become more confident when taking part in social activities and
get more out of their lives on Aug. 24.
Better access to information, team
work, and customer service, were among the topics discussed at a
seminar on business leadership organised in the central city of Da Nang
on August 26.
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Vietnam and
the northern province of Ninh Binh’s Labour, War Invalids and Social
Affairs Department on August 21 launched a contest on business ideas.
Vietnamese documentary film-makers will be given the chance to
air their productions on the Discovery Asia channel in a competition
entitled Firtst time Filmmakers (FTFM) Vietnam.
A shortage of food hygiene and safety
inspectors nationwide has contributed to 29 deaths from food poisoning
and more than 2,500 people hospitalised in the first six months of this
year, the Ministry of Health’s Food Hygiene and Safety Department has
revealed.
Growth theory and economic development
were the main topics of a seminar co-hosted by the Ministry for Foreign
Affairs and the Party Central Committee’s Theory Council in Hanoi on
August 17.
Prof. Jomo Kwame Sundaram, UN Assistant
Secretary General for Economic Development in the UN Department of
Social and Economic Affairs, and Prof. James Riedel from the US’s Johns
Hopkins University, participated in the event.
The Health Ministry plans to dispatch more teams of inspectors
nationwide to oversee food safety, medical treatment at hospitals and
clinics, the management and use of vaccines and the sale of drugs and
cosmetics.
Discovery Channel, in cooperation with
Uproar Asia, on August 12 launched the First Time Filmmakers (FTFM)
Vietnam documentary competition, aimed at bringing Vietnamese stories
to the world.
