• 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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• Students meet in Singapore for forum
  Students meet in Singapore for forum
  

  Eight students from Vietnam and more than 210 students from Asia will gather in Singapore to voice their opinions about pressing regional issues at a forum organised by Hitachi Asia Ltd in July.
  09/02
• Cold spell to hit north during Tet holiday
  Cold spell to hit north during Tet holiday
  

  

  A cold spell is expected to hit northern provinces on February 13, putting an end to the current unusual hot weather, according to the National Hydro-meteorological Forecasting Centre.
  09/02
• UK cruise ship brings 800 tourists to Vietnam
  UK cruise ship brings 800 tourists to Vietnam
  

  

  British cruise ship Spirit of Adventure docked at Saigon port in Ho Chi Minh City on February 8, bringing 800 passengers and crewmen, mostly the British, to Vietnam.
  08/02
• Party chief urges medical staff to enhance professional ethics
  Party chief urges medical staff to enhance professional ethics
  

  

  Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh visited Bach Mai General Hospital in Hanoi on February 8, calling on all medical staff to raise their moral standards in order to protect people’s health and effectively follow the Party’s and State policies regarding the health sector.
  08/02
• Lunar New Year celebrated abroad
  Lunar New Year celebrated abroad
  

  

  Various activities were held on February 7 by the Vietnamese embassies in Thailand, Cambodia and Bangladesh to celebrate the coming lunar New Year (the Year of the Tiger).
  08/02