• 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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• French university helps build plasma lab in Danang
  French university helps build plasma lab in Danang
  

  A plasma laboratory has been built at Danang University with the funding of France’s Joseph Fourier University.
  22/11
• Humanitarian blood donation launched in HCM City
  Humanitarian blood donation launched in HCM City
  

  

  A humanitarian blood donation programme was launched in HCM City on November 21 by Prudential Vietnam Life Insurance Company, the Central Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, and the Vietnam Red Cross.
  21/11
• UN urges investment in teachers for learning society in Vietnam
  UN urges investment in teachers for learning society in Vietnam
  

  The United Nations has called on Vietnam to set up strategies on the development and management of teachers to provide enough qualified and devoted instructors for remote areas to meet the national target the universalisation of junior secondary education by 2010.
  21/11
• Vietnam talks disaster risk reduction at IFRC session
  Vietnam talks disaster risk reduction at IFRC session
  

  Vietnam has made a presentation on mitigating the damage caused by disasters at the 17th session of the General Assembly of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) which is being held in Nairobi, Kenya, from November 18-25.
  21/11
• Vietnam to joint Asian Fashion Federation
  Vietnam to joint Asian Fashion Federation
  

  Vietnam will officially become the sixth member of the Asian Fashion Federation (AFF) at a ceremony in Hanoi on November 22.
  21/11