Further efforts are needed to support
the Haitian authorities to implement targeted social and economic
programmes in a bid to address the extreme vulnerability of the
country, Ambassador Le Luong Minh, Permanent Representative of Vietnam
to the Untied Nations, has said.
Although joint efforts between the
Vietnamese and US governments have been fruitful, recovery of the
environment and improvement of the health of AO victims still remains
limited.
People injured in traffic accidents
will no longer have hospital fees paid for by medical insurance, unless
they have the proper paperwork to prove they did not violate traffic
regulations.
A range of celebrations were held in
France and the United Kingdom to celebrate the 64th anniversary of
Vietnam ’s National Day and the August Revolution.
President of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Associations
(VUFO) Vu Xuan Hong led a delegation to visit the US from August 29 to
September 5 with the aim of making the best use of the people-to-people
diplomacy to promote bilateral Vietnam-US cooperation.
Vietnam confirmed that 25 more patients
have tested positive for the A/H1N1 flu on August 13, bringing the
country’s total victims of the super flu to 1,300.
The Vietnamese community abroad has
marked the August Revolution and National Day on September 2 with
celebrations and charitable activities all over southeast Asia.
Granma newspaper, official organ of the
Communist Party of Cuba, affirmed that Vietnam has succeeded in dealing
with the impacts of the world economic crisis.
PeaceTrees Vietnam, a non-governmental
organisation of the US, has provided nearly 249,000 USD to the central
province of Quang Tri to continue the clearance of landmines and
unexploded ordnance (UXO) in the province from now to April 2010.
Seventeen crew members aboard the
Vietnamese ship “Hodasco 15”, which capsized in the Strait of Malacca
near Malaysia , were rescued by a Syrian cargo ship on August 31,
Malaysia ’s Bernama National News Agency has reported.
The Voice of America radio station
(VOA) wants to help former US Army lieutenant William L. Calley
broadcast his recent apology for the Vietnamese war atrocity at My Lai
to the people of Vietnam.
Ambassador to the US talks about former Lt. William Calley’s public apology on the mass
killings in My Lai and the
level of cooperation that both countries have had.
Vietnam on August 21 strongly condemned the deadly attacks that
killed nearly 100 people and wounded hundreds of others in Iraq ’s
capital city of Bangdad on August 19.
A US veteran, the only officer
convicted after the mass killings in My Lai, central Vietnam, in 1968,
has made a public apology to victims and their families for the first
time, foreign media reported.
Ammonia gas that leaked from a fish
processing plant in Pagan Pasir, in the state of Selangor , Malaysia on
August 11 claimed six lives, including two Bangladeshi workers.
XIII National Congress of Communist Party of Vietnam
