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Vietnam highly valued UNICEF’s help in social and cultural development in the country, National Assembly Vice Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan said. Vice Chairwoman Ngan made the appraisal while receiving UNICEF Chief Representative in Vietnam Lotta Sylwander in Hanoi on Jan. Ngan thanked UNICEF for its cooperation in implementing policies on protection and care for [...]
The Soc Trang City Party inspector who has been detained for playing Chinese chess games through which he won VND2.5 billion (US$119,000) has earlier been conferred an “outstanding performance” certificate but has not yet received it, said Nguyen Thanh Binh, deputy secretary of the Soc Trang Province Party Committee. The committee has received the certificate [...]
Many businesses, agencies and domestic and foreign social organizations have joined charitable activities to help the poor and disadvantaged in the central and southern provinces prepare for the Tet (Lunar New Year) festival. In the central province of Binh Thuan, the Lawrence S.Ting Community Support Fund in Ho Chi Minh City, in cooperation with the [...]
With the Sundance Film Festival starting next Thursday and the Oscars not too far off, the movie buffs at online travel adviser Cheapflights (http:///www.cheapflights.com) have compiled a top 10 list of their favorite film festivals across the globe. 1. Sundance Film Festival – Park City, Utah, United States Sundance Film Festival started out in 1978 [...]
A cacophony ranging from Asian string instruments to the delicate cadences of classical piano pours out of a two-storey building in central Kabul. Here, at Afghanistan’s sole music academy, students are taught music with the hope it will bring comfort in the face of war and poverty, bringing back cellos and violins to revive a [...]
Plan International in Vietnam will provide $3.2 million in support of poor children in the Central Highland province of Kon Tum in the next five years (2011-2016). A memorandum of understanding (MoU) to this effect was signed by the Kon Tum provincial People’s Committee and the organisation in Kon Tum city on January 10. This [...]
The Vietnam Golden Heart Fund made its debut in Hanoi on January 12, calling on individuals, organisations, and benefactors both at home and abroad to join hands to help the poor, AO/dioxin victims and families of martyrs and invalids. At the launch ceremony, war veteran-turned entrepreneur Nguyen Ngoc Khoi, who is one of the fund [...]
Internal strife has been ruining the education environment at local private universities where economic interests, instead of teaching or other educational issues, now dominate attention. “Our board meetings have never been centred on education or the school’s development plans, but on financial issues instead,” says Nguyen Ngoc, chairman of the board of directors at [...]
Since the start of this school year, Dinh Van Bay, a veteran in Dong Thap Province, has been offering free lunches to nearly 100 students of Nguyen Van Khai High School. Dinh Van Bay (standing) prepares meal for 100 students of the Nguyen Van Khai High School, near his house At around 11.30 [...]
Vietnam’s representative Nguyen Thi Thu Huong has just been named the second runner-up at the final round of this year’s Mrs. World pageant which was held in Orlando, Florida on December 15. Thu Huong and her husband at the beauty contest Mrs World 2011. Contestant from the host country won the crown while Peru’s representative [...]