The association of Vietnamese people in Norway raised 40,000 NOK (US$5,700) during a recent charity night held in Oslo in support of poor and disabled children in Vietnam.
Ireland hopes to welcome more Vietnamese students who pursue their education in the country, Director for International Relations at Ireland’s University of Cork Christopher Brown has said.
The German development cooperation agency GIZ will continue helping Vietnam improve its hospital management with the use of advanced technologies, GIZ Programme Director Anna Frisch said.
Vietnam and France have reached consensus on fighting various crimes and expand cooperation across fields of their needs.
Foreign military attachés in Vietnam held an exchange with officers and soldiers from the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) in Hanoi on November 6.
The National Fund for Vietnamese Children (NFVC), in cooperation with AIA Vietnam and the Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs of the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho, launched the “Life’s Journey” programme on November 6 to raise funds to buy bicycles for the city’s disadvantaged children.
A meeting on the Post-2015 Support Programme to Respond to Climate Change in Vietnam (SP-RCC), co-chaired by Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) Tran Hong Ha and Deputy Resident Representative of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Suzuki Tadashi, was held in Hanoi on November 6.
Hanoi People's Committee has urged authorities to increase supervision over the operation of private health clinics.
The Health Ministry has asked all local health departments and hospitals under its management to report the procurement of testing and diagnostics equipment supplied by US-based Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. from January 1, 2005 to November 5, 2014.
The banking sector will continue to give lending priority to rice production, aquaculture and fruit cultivation and processing in the Mekong Delta to help the region fully tap its potential for sustainable development, according to Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) Nguyen Van Binh.