• More study on child rights in Vietnam
  More study on child rights in Vietnam
  

  

  In 2010, Vietnam will mobilise domestic and foreign sources to promote advocacy relating to the implementation of child rights.
  10/03
• MoIT to promote int’l biotech cooperation
  MoIT to promote int’l biotech cooperation
  

  The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has announced a five-year plan to promote international cooperation in biotechnology application.
  10/03
• Hanoi hosts job transaction floor
  Hanoi hosts job transaction floor
  

  

  The Hanoi Employment Centre, under the municipal Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, will organise a job transaction floor for the first time to solve the problem of unemployment among the capital’s young people.
  10/03
• Students to receive free eye treatment
  Students to receive free eye treatment
  

  Nearly 30,000 high school students in four localities will receive free eye check-up, consulting services and medicines under a programme launched on March 9.
  10/03
• Plans underway to build 44 more waste treatment plants
  Plans underway to build 44 more waste treatment plants
  

  Forty-four solid waste treatment plants will be built in the country in the period of 2010-2020 to reduce the use of landfills, the Ministry of Construction has said.
  10/03

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• Storm Mirinae kills 21 in Phu Yen province
  Storm Mirinae kills 21 in Phu Yen province
  

  

  Tropical storm Mirinae, which slammed into the south-central region on November 2, has left at least 21 people dead and 3 others injured in Phu Yen province.
  03/11
• Vietnam – one of world’s most peaceful nations
  Vietnam – one of world’s most peaceful nations
  

  

  Vietnam was named among one of the most peaceful nations in the world at a Global Symposium of Peaceful Nations held in Washington, DC, from November 1-3.
  03/11
• Vietnamese Tourism Promotion Centre to be established in France
  Vietnamese Tourism Promotion Centre to be established in France
  

  The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST) is about to set up a centre to promote Vietnamese tourism in France and other European countries, said Minister Hoang Tuan Anh.
  03/11
• One more fatal case of A/H1N1 confirmed in Hanoi
  One more fatal case of A/H1N1 confirmed in Hanoi
  

  

  The Department for Preventive Medicine and Environment under the Ministry of Health on November 3 confirmed one more victim of the A/H1N1 influenza in Hanoi, raising the total death toll from the disease in the country to 37 so far.
  03/11
• Vietnam attends Japan-ASEAN youth leaders’ summit
  Vietnam attends Japan-ASEAN youth leaders’ summit
  

  A 29-member Vietnamese delegation attended the Japan-ASEAN Youth Leaders’ Summit which opened in Tokyo on November 2, as part of the 36th Ship for Southeast Asian Youth Programme (SSEAYP).
  03/11