The number of candidates taking the International English Language
Testing System (IELTS) in the academic year of 2011-12 has doubled in
Vietnam over the last five years, and increased by 14 percent from last
year, said the British Council Vietnam on April 19.
Around 750,000 people, including drug users, homosexuals and sex workers
have received HIV prevention treatment under the 44-million USD
Community Reach Programme.
Vietnam may begin producing bird flu vaccines for humans next
year, according to the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology's
director Nguyen Tran Hien.
Cambodia will make an effort to persuade the Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea (DPRK) to return to the six-party talks in order to
end the DPRK nuclear programme, a Cambodian official has said.
Testing practices of seafood exporters should be modified to meet
standards and to improve the quality of products, said Vietnam
Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).
A prenatal and newborn-screening network will be expanded throughout the
country to reach the target of serving 30 percent of newborn babies and
15 percent of pregnant women by 2015, according to Department of
Population and Family Planning.
The APAVE Asia Pacific on Nov. 22 officially launched its new services
of aviation and space technology to promote cooperation in risk control
in this field in Vietnam.
The Trade Ministers of Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Chile, Malaysia,
New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States, and Vietnam sent a
report on a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement to their leaders.
Vietnam 's textile and garment businesses should develop their service
centres, especially the industry's small- and medium-sized enterprises
(SMEs), participants were informed at a workshop held in Hanoi on
Oct. 20.
A regulation stipulating that English language teachers must achieve
required scores on international English tests come into force with the
start of the new academic year, but many teachers are unable to meet the
new requirements.
The Joint United Nations Team on HIV in Vietnam on May 20 announced
that Vietnam would be the first country to pilot Treatment 2.0 - a new
generation of HIV treatment that it said could radically cut
AIDS-related deaths and help prevent new HIV infections.
Domestic businesses should be fully aware of provisions contained in the
US Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) to avoid product
safety violations when exporting to the market, officials said on Aug.
11.
A pilot metro rail line in Hanoi is expected to start service by
2016, with the first survey drill for the project set to begin on July 7, at the Hanoi station.
The first 28 Vietnamese students joining the Intel Vietnam Scholars
(IVS) programme have graduated with high honours from Portland State
University in the US .
The military-run telecoms group, Viettel, has become the first network
operator in Vietnam to allow its customers to use the fourth
generation (4G) technology on a trial basis after seven months of
getting a licence for the test.
