• Improving job seeking skills
  Improving job seeking skills
  

  

  If the domestic labour market is fully exploited people can get a suitable job.
  11/03
• Activities to mark World Glaucoma Day
  Activities to mark World Glaucoma Day
  

  

  The Vietnam National Institute of Ophthalmology (VNIO) marks World Glaucoma Day (March 12) through a wide range of activities, such as opening a workshop on the treatment of the disease, providing free eye examinations and eye drops to patients with glaucoma or organsing a meeting.
  11/03
• Solutions to promote tourism in Da Lat
  Solutions to promote tourism in Da Lat
  

  

  “It is crucial to comprehensively implement all 8 solution packages to develop tourism in Da Lat city,” concluded more than 150 representatives at a workshop held in the central highland province Lam Dong on March 10.
  11/03
• Children to receive five-in-one vaccine
  Children to receive five-in-one vaccine
  

  Over 1 million children under the age of one will be provided with a vaccine to protect them against five diseases (diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, hepatitis B and haemophilus influenza type B), under the National Expanded Programme for Immunisation.
  11/03
• 18 provinces and cities to join Earth Hour
  18 provinces and cities to join Earth Hour
  

  As many as 18 provinces and cities across Vietnam have registered to take part in Earth Hour 2010, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
  11/03

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• Defence Minister receives Russian medical scientists
  Defence Minister receives Russian medical scientists
  

  Minister of Defence General Phung Quang Thanh on October 5 received a delegation of Russian scientists coming to help Vietnam preserve the late President Ho Chi Minh’s embalmed body.
  06/10
• Global fund assists Vietnam’s post-calamity recovery
  Global fund assists Vietnam’s post-calamity recovery
  

  Donors from the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) began their three-day visit to Vietnam on October 5 to look into the country’s preparedness to cope with natural disasters.
  06/10
• Vietnam’s A/H1N1 fatalities reach 20
  Vietnam’s A/H1N1 fatalities reach 20
  

  

  Vietnam on October 5 confirmed two more fatal cases of A/H1N1 flu, bringing the death toll to 20 to date.
  06/10
• Floods spark epidemics in central Vietnam
  Floods spark epidemics in central Vietnam
  

  

  The number of hospitalized patients with flu, diarrhoea, and eye infections has increased tenfold in central Vietnam over the past several days after typhoon Ketsana hit the region.
  05/10
• Typhoon Parma likely to hit Vietnam’s coastline
  Typhoon Parma likely to hit Vietnam’s coastline
  

  By noon on October 5, typhoon Parma had moved west-southwest, directly affecting coastal areas and the northern part of the Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago, and may still threaten the Vietnamese coast in the next few days.
  05/10