• Spain funds metro project in HCM City
  Spain funds metro project in HCM City
  

  

  HCM City’s Urban Railway Management Board and Spain have signed a cooperative agreement to implement a metro line No 5 running from Bay Hien crossroads to Sai Gon Bridge.
  09/09
• Resettlement of nomadic ethnic minorities under review
  Resettlement of nomadic ethnic minorities under review
  

  A resettlement programme reserved for nomadic ethnic minority people has been carried out too slowly and needs to gather all the available resources to accomplish all of its goals by 2012, a supervising agency has said.
  09/09
• Japanese federation cooperates with Hung Yen
  Japanese federation cooperates with Hung Yen
  

  The Japan-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentarian Federation (JVFPF) wants to promote economic and investment ties with the northern province of Hung Yen. 
  09/09
• Laos, Vietnam seek martyr remains
  Laos, Vietnam seek martyr remains
  

  The Lao province of Savannakhet will create all favourable conditions for Quang Tri province’s Search Team 584 to search, gather and repatriate remains of Vietnamese volunteers and experts who laid down their lives in Laos.
  09/09
• Ceremony for 65th anniversary of Vietnam's Revolutionary education
  Ceremony for 65th anniversary of Vietnam's Revolutionary education
  

  

  HCM City hosted a ceremony on September 8 to mark the 65th anniversary of Vietnam’s revolutionary education and congratulate Vu Dinh Hoe, Vietnam’s first minister of education and training on his long life.
  08/09

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• 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
• Women to receive free check-ups
  Women to receive free check-ups
  

  Poor women in southern provinces will receive free gynecological check-ups and treatment for cancer under a new programme for prevention and control of cancer in women.
  10/03
• Japanese economic experts honoured
  Japanese economic experts honoured
  

  

  Vietnamese Ambassador to Japan Nguyen Phu Binh has presented a friendship medal to Director of Japan’s Vietnam Economic Research Institute Kubota Teruyoshi for his active contributions to promoting friendly cooperation between the two countries.
  10/03
• 35th celebration of Buon Ma Thuot victory
  35th celebration of Buon Ma Thuot victory
  

  

  The Party Committee, administration and people of Buon Ma Thuot City are poised to make the city more modern and civilized to catch up with other localities in the country. 
  10/03
• Work to start on Vietnam’s section of transnational road
  Work to start on Vietnam’s section of transnational road
  

  Construction of the 220km Vietnamese segment of a transnational highway linking the greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) will begin in the second quarter of the year, says Duong Tuan Minh, general director of the My Thuan Project Management Unit.
  10/03