The sixth annual Waste Recycling Day was held in Ho Chi Minh City on April 14 in a bid to raise public awareness of the 3Rs - reducing, reusing and recycling - in schools.
The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA), and the Association for the Support of Vietnamese Handicapped and Orphans (ASVHO) on April 14 jointly host a meeting to honour outstanding people with disabilities, orphans and patrons.
The Party and State have continued promulgating numerous preferential policies to improve the material and spiritual lives of Khmer people and other ethnic minority groups.
A delegation from the National Assembly’s Council for Ethnic Affairs on April 12 met with the Patriotic United Buddhist Association in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu on the occasion of Khmer people’s traditional New Year festival, Chol Chnam Thmay.
Mui Ca Mau (Ca Mau Cape) National Park in the southernmost province of Ca Mau received the certificate recognizing it as the 2,088th world Ramsar site at a ceremony on April 13.
Vietnam will hand over 11 Indonesian pirates, who hijacked the Malaysian vessel Zafirah, to the Indonesian side at Tan Son Nhat airport in Ho Chi Minh City on April 13.
Chair of the Audit Committee of the Finnish Parliament Tuija Brax has applauded Binh Duong southern province’s effective utilisation of Finnish aid in building a plant making organic fertiliser from waste.
A conference was held in Hanoi on April 12 to discuss changes of markets in Vietnam from an anthropological viewpoint.
Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Le Hoang Quan has expressed his hope that the region of Wallonia in Belgium will assist the city in seaport management and development.
A delegation from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) will visit Vietnam in mid-June in an exchange with students at Vietnam National University.