The northern mountain province of Tuyen Quang has signed an investment cooperation deal with a delegation from the RoK city of Anseong, on a working visit there on April 14-15.

Injury accidents among children have become a public health concern and are a leading cause of child fatalities in Vietnam.

The Ha Nam Provincial People’s Committee and US-based ORBIS on April 15 signed a VND2.8 billion deal to improve eye care for children in the province over the next five years.

Danang University and Nice-Sophia Antipolis University (France) have agreed to work together in nine joint scientific research projects proposed by 35 leading French and Vietnamese scientists.

Nguyen Thi That Peel, a French Vietnamese was awarded the National Order of the Legion of Honour in recognition of her contribution to humanitarian and cultural activities and enhancing solidarity amongst nations.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Russia has confirmed that only two Vietnamese women died in a fire that broke out at a garment workshop in Noginsk City on April 12.

Vietnam’s first festival of gifts will be held in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province from November 17-21, announced Ho Van Nien, Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee.

The Vietnamese Embassy hosted a charity fair of the Asia-Pacific Ladies Friendship Society (ALFS) in Tokyo on April 14.

The third annual Waste Recycling Day will take place in HCM City on April 18 to draw attention to environmental issues.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) is proposing that the Government give students in forestry and agriculture major exemptions from tuition fees to minimise the shortage of highly-qualified manpower in these fields.

The Khmer in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang have welcomed the New Year, Chol Chnam Thmay, with great joy after gaining a bumper crop and benefits from Party and State social welfare policies.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is helping Vietnam implement several activities in response to the 2010 Action Month for Food Quality, Hygiene and Safety.

HCM City People’s Committee has proposed to the Prime Minister that the city be allowed to use Official Development Assistance (ODA) funds from the Spanish Government to build metro line number 5 which will link District 8’s Can Giuoc Bus Terminal with District 2’s Saigon Bridge.

Women from Vietnam and Cambodia should strengthen exchange visits, share experiences and help each other make further progress.

Currently living in the UK, the Hai Phong-born artist Vu Kim Thanh is very famous for his landscape paintings, pictures and poems which give off a strong feeling of his nostalgia and love for the homeland.

Vietnam gives top priority to nuclear safety and security when using this resource of energy, the Minister of Science and Technology Hoang Van Phong has confirmed.

A fire broke out at a workshop located in a Vietnamese-run vegetable farm in the city of Noginsk on the night of April 12, killing four Vietnamese and injuring many others.

An exhibition featuring advanced community health will take place at the Hanoi Friendship Cultural Palace from May 12-15.

The Vietnamese Cleft Lip and Palate Foundation was officially established in Hanoi on April 13 with assistance from the Japanese Cleft Palate Foundation.

The Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) will present 640 computer systems to the Lao government to assist the country’s education sector under an agreement signed in Vientiane on April 12.

The Business Association of Overseas Vietnamese (BAOOV) has set up its branch in Washington DC, on April 12. 

Five people have been infected with vibrio cholerae in Ho Chi Minh City so far, according to an official from the municipal health department.

Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange will fly to the US on April 14 to continue their struggle for justice in their ongoing lawsuit against US chemical companies, says the Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (VAVA).

Laos’ Bunpimay festival and Thailand’s Songkran festival will be held in the central province of Nghe An from April 13-16 for students from both nations studying at Vinh University.

The cardio vascular centre at hospital E in Hanoi has signed a cooperative agreement with Okayama University in Japan to share their experiences, promote the exchange of doctors and nurses and conduct research.

Since the start of this year, Da Nang has received 436,350 tourists, a year-on-year increase of 50 percent, including 169,600 foreigners and 266,800 Vietnamese.

A variety of activities will be held to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Vietnam Journalists Association (April 21) and Vietnam’s Revolutionary Journalism Day (June 21).

The northern province of Bac Ninh has officially confirmed its first case of the bacteria Vibrio cholera.

The register of mourning was opened on April 12 at the Polish Embassy in Hanoi in tribute to the plane crash victims among whom were the President of Poland Lech Kaczynski, his wife, and leading members of the government.

The HCM City Department of Transport is mapping out a plan to replace more than half of its bus fleet with "greener" models.