• International community support Vietnamese Agent Orange victims
  International community support Vietnamese Agent Orange victims
  

  Former Vice President Nguyen Thi Binh, honourable president of the Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (VAVA) on March 11 received VND90 million from Chinese Ambassador to Vietnam Sun Guoxiang.
  11/03
• Improving job seeking skills
  Improving job seeking skills
  

  

  If the domestic labour market is fully exploited people can get a suitable job.
  11/03
• VOVNews gives prizes to winners of Radio Blog contest
  VOVNews gives prizes to winners of Radio Blog contest
  

  

  Radio the Voice of Vietnam’s Online Newspaper (VOVNews) has awarded prizes to winners of a Radio Blog contest in Hanoi.
  11/03
• Cruise ship Nautica visits Ha Long Bay
  Cruise ship Nautica visits Ha Long Bay
  

  

  The US cruise ship Nautica docked at Cai Lan port on March 9 bringing over 1,000 foreign tourists to Ha Long Bay.
  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

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• Vietnam reserves drugs to replace Tamiflu
  Vietnam reserves drugs to replace Tamiflu
  

  

  Vietnam has reserved stocks of Relenza to replace Tamiflu if any cases prove to be resistant to Tamiflu, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH).
  10/07
• Vietnam-Sweden environmental project works well
  Vietnam-Sweden environmental project works well
  

  The Vietnam-Sweden Cooperation Programme on Strengthening Environmental Management and Land Administration in Vietnam (SEMLA) has proved very effective in localities, according to a seminar held in Hanoi on July 8.
  10/07
• WB helps Vietnam reduce poverty, light up countryside
  WB helps Vietnam reduce poverty, light up countryside
  

  

  The World Bank will provide a total of US$300 million to aid the implementation of the second phase of a poverty reduction project and to increase rural access to electricity.
  10/07
• NGO grants going strong
  NGO grants going strong
  

  Vietnam received commitments to humanitarian and socio-economic assistance from 17 new foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the first half of the year, despite the impact of the global economic downturn.
  10/07
• Asia’s first satellite image receiver unveiled in Hanoi
  Asia’s first satellite image receiver unveiled in Hanoi
  

  

  The ENVISAT satellite image station, which will process geographical satellite images, opened in Hanoi on July 9.
  10/07