• 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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• Vietnam needs to build brand name in ICT
  Vietnam needs to build brand name in ICT
  

  

  Vietnam needs to build strong brand names in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in order to make it a strong ICT nation, according to the National Council for Scientific and Technological Policies (NCSTP).
  25/11
• Australian MP supports natural disaster victims in Vietnam
  Australian MP supports natural disaster victims in Vietnam
  

  The New South Wales Parliament Asia-Pacific Friendship Group has organised a fund-raiser for natural disaster victims in Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, Samoa and Tonga.
  25/11
• Saigontourist receives large number of MICE visitors
  Saigontourist receives large number of MICE visitors
  

  The Saigontourist Travel Service Company received as many as 10,000 visitors registered for MICE (meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions) in November alone, equivalent to 25 percent of the total number of MICE visitors to Vietnam in the first 10 months of 2009.
  25/11
• Int’l Odonto-Maxillo-Facial Conference and Expo opens in Hanoi
  Int’l Odonto-Maxillo-Facial Conference and Expo opens in Hanoi
  

  The 5th International Odonto-Maxillo-Facial Conference and Expo was held in Hanoi on November 25 with the participation of more than 1,000 Vietnamese and foreign professors and doctors.
  25/11
• Nobel laureate calls on students to combat HIV/AIDS
  Nobel laureate calls on students to combat HIV/AIDS
  

  

  French virologist and 2008 Nobel laureate Francoise Barre-Sinoussi on November 24 called on students in Ho Chi Minh City to actively combat HIV/AIDS.
  25/11