The remains of Vietnamese soldiers killed in Cambodia during the war against the US and the South Western border war have been reburied at the Doc Ba Dac cemetery in An Giang province.

The German Organisation for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) will provide Vietnam with US$1 million between 2009-2011 to create a legal framework and technical support for a national wind power network.

A/H1N1 prevention courses in high schools will be held on July 22 to raise public awareness of the epidemic, said Huynh Cong Minh, director of HCM City Department of Education and Training.

More than 100 representatives from non-governmental organisations (NGO), ministries and industries attended a meeting in Hanoi yesterday.

Members of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union yesterday visited war martyrs’ cemeteries in Ho Chi Minh City as part of a continuing programme to celebrate War Invalids and Martyrs’ Day on July 27.

The US government is to help isolated communities in Vietnam to increase their incomes by producing bamboo furniture, flooring and construction materials, according to a press release issued by the American Embassy on July 20.

Citizens and businesspeople in several southern cities and provinces find it much easier today to examine legislation and other documents issued by provincial authorities through a system of electronic official gazettes developed with US assistance.

Vietnam needs over 1,000 highly trained staff from now until 2020, said Vuong Huu Tan, Director of the Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute (VAEI).

The first Congress of the Overseas Vietnamese Association during the 2009-2010 term was held in Tokyo, Japan on July 19.

Representatives from the embassies of South Africa, India and Brazil visited the Birla Children’s Village in Hanoi on July 18 as part of a programme to mark Mandela Day.

An additional 31 patients tested positive for the A (H1N1) flu on July 19, bringing the total of confirmed cases in Vietnam to 383 by 5 pm on the same day.

A waste sorting project to promote the “3Rs” environmental protection initiative (reduce-reuse-recycle) aims to reduce buried waste in the capital city by 30 percent by 2015 and 70 percent by 2020.

US-based organisation Save the Children (SC/US) held a community dialogue titled “Listen to us – teenagers outside schools” in the northern port city of Hai Phong on July 17.

More than 100 overseas Vietnamese youth from a number of countries in the world attended the Vietnam Summer Camp 2009, which opened at the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi on July 19.

Health Minister Nguyen Quoc Trieu has agreed to mobilise 20 more southern provinces to carry out PCR test for A/H1N1 virus before sending the tested samples to the Pasteur Institute for final results.

The Public Security Ministry’s Social Order Crime Police on July 17 handed over a man from the Republic of Korea, who was wanted for a jewellery shop robbery in his home country, to the RoK Interpol.

A project to help increase knowledge of the law among poor women, with support from the UK’s CARE International organisation, proved to be useful, said a seminar held in Hoa Binh province on July 17.

Vietnam is paying very close attention to the Moscow administration’s decision to temporarily close the Cherkirovo market, since it greatly affects the lives of many Vietnamese people who are doing business legally there, a Vietnamese official said.

The Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX) has announced that it will hold a bidding session for VND500 billion in government-guaranteed bonds issued by the Vietnam Expressway Corporation (VEC) on July 22.

In the first half of this year there were more than 6,000 traffic accidents resulting in 5,800 deaths and nearly 4,000 injuries.

The Vinacapital Foundation and a US Non Government Organization have agreed to launch a US$600,000 programme, aimed at providing free heart surgery for poor children in Vietnam.

The provincial People’s Committee of the Southern province An Giang has approved a project to build an eco-tourism site in the My Duc commune, Chau Phu district.

An additional 18 patients tested positive for the A (H1N1) flu on July 16, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Vietnam to 338.

The 13 International Odonto-Maxillo-Facial Conference opened in Ho Chi Minh City on July 16 to share state-of-the-art technologies in the field.

The Vietnam Buddhist Shangha (VBS) and the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese (COV) have signed a cooperation agreement on a programme to meet the demands of Vietnamese expats who wish to practise religion.

Online searching giant Google has sent a letter to the Vietnam Literary Copyright Centre (VLCC) and several Vietnamese writers, asking to purchase copyrights of more than 4,000 books.

11 people tested positive for the A/H1N1 flu on July 15, bringing the country’s tally to 320, however no deaths have been reported so far, said an official from the Ministry of Health (MoH). 

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST) and the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) signed a cooperation deal for 2009-2010 in Hanoi on July 15, under which the former will provide information to make the public. 

A festival and cultural exchange entitled “War Memories and a Desire for Peace” will be held in the central province of Quang Tri to mark the 62nd anniversary of War Invalids and Martyrs’ Day (July 27).

The Prime Minister has approved a project to improve public awareness and community based disaster risk management.