• Saigontourist arranges tours for US war veterans
  Saigontourist arranges tours for US war veterans
  

  

  Saigontourist Travel Service Company will launch a Meeting-Incentive-Conference-Event (MICE) programme for 18 members of the US Dove charity organisation from March 19-April 5.
  19/03
• Cruise ship C.COLUMBUS visits Nha Trang
  Cruise ship C.COLUMBUS visits Nha Trang
  

  Bahamas cruise ship C.COLUMBUS docked at Nha Trang Port on March 18, bringing 254 foreign tourists to the city.
  19/03
• Belgian Prof. receives insignia and certificate of merit from Hai Phong
  Belgian Prof. receives insignia and certificate of merit from Hai Phong
  

  Chairman of the Municipal People’s Committee of Hai Phong Nguyen Van Thanh sent the city’s insignia and certificate of merit to Belgian Prof. Dr. Luc Hens, Head of the Human Ecology Department in Free University of Brussels on March18.
  19/03
• E-passport to be issued in Vietnam
  E-passport to be issued in Vietnam
  

  

  The Prime Minister has urged the Ministry of Public Security to go ahead with a national project on issuing E-passport in 2011, announced the Government Office.
  19/03
• Danish NGO continues help northern ethnic minorities
  Danish NGO continues help northern ethnic minorities
  

  

  The Agricultural Development Denmark Asia (ADDA), a Danish non-governmental orgnaisation, has launched the second phase of the project on community development for ethnic minority groups in the northern region.
  19/03

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• Over 22,000 workers sent abroad in the first quarter
  Over 22,000 workers sent abroad in the first quarter
  

  The numbers of labourers working in the foreign countries has reached over 22,000 in the first quarter of 2009.
  08/04
• Finland helps localities cope with climate change
  Finland helps localities cope with climate change
  

  The Finish Embassy in Hanoi announced on April 7 that it will finance two projects worth EUR 460,000 to support the climate change correction and prevention in Vietnam.
  08/04
• Khmer ethnic people to celebrate New Year in mid-April
  Khmer ethnic people to celebrate New Year in mid-April
  

  More than 300,000 Khmer ethnic people in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh will welcome their New Year festival - Chol Chnam Thmay - which will last from April 14-16.
  08/04
• Toshiba helps cut greenhouse gas emissions
  Toshiba helps cut greenhouse gas emissions
  

  Japan’s Toshiba Corporation has announced the establishment of a new company that will carry out a green development project to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Vietnam.
  08/04
• Int’l charity funds clinics in Khanh Hoa province
  Int’l charity funds clinics in Khanh Hoa province
  

  The humanitarian organization Atlantic Philanthropies (AP) has donated US$4.2 million to 62 communal medical stations in the southcentral province of Khanh Hoa.
  08/04