Vietnam’s tourism sector will conclude its 2009 Vietnamese tourism promotion campaign with programmes in Taiwan, China, and France, according to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT).

The US-based Boeing Company inaugurated two schools in the Mekong Delta provinces of Can Tho and An Giang on December 7. 

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked the Ministry of Information and Communications to conduct a comprehensive inspection of websites after the local media ran stories featuring websites with large young readerships that broadcast violent and pornographic content.

On December 7, a team of Belgian and Vietnamese surgeons conducted a liver transplant on a 12-month-old baby at Ho Chi Minh City’s Paediatrics Hospital 2.

More than 100 specialists from China, Japan, Australia, Thailand and Vietnam attended an international seminar on agricultural mechanical and electrical engineering and bio-systems, held in Hanoi on December 8. 

Around US$910,700 in non-refundable aid will be provided for needy students in 22 provinces this month. 

The Vietstar Lemma Eco Centre, the largest and most modern solid waste treatment facility in Southeast Asia, will be put into operation in Ho Chi Minh City on Dec. 18. 

With the Hong (Red) River drying up the lives of farmers living along its banks are hanging in the balance.

About 1,700 Buddhist dignitaries and nuns from around the world will attend the 16th International Conference on Buddhist Women to be held in Ho Chi Minh City from December 28, 2009 to January 3, 2010.

The French Embassy in Hanoi on December 8 handed a cheque for VND386 million from French singer Francis Cabrel to an official from the northern province of Bac Kan.

A project is underway to train forest rangers from 23 cities and provinces in the northwest, northeast, north central, south central and central highlands regions.

A team of journalists from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) will come to Vietnam to examine climate change issues in the country and broadcast them to the world, said a BBC official.

Vietnam’s first online medicine transaction floor will be open late this month at www.santhuoc.vn.

The annual Christmas bonanza is in full swing with a wide range of Christmas products on sale.  

Cao Van San, a successful Vietnamese businessman in Thailand, delivered an impressive speech at the 1st conference of Overseas Vietnamese taking place in Hanoi recently.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a plan to include instruction on the State’s fight against corruption in education and training curricula in the nation’s schools.

Young people from 10 provinces in the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam development triangle has gathered at a forum in Vietnam’s Central Highland province of Dak Lak to discuss ways of boosting the region’s development. 

The water level in the Hong (Red) River, the country’s second biggest river has reached a record low for a century, leaving more than 200 vessels stranded and threatening farming production, warned authorities. 

The Government has issued a seven-point programme for advancing women during the country’s national industrialisation and modernisation process in an effort to turn Vietnam into a regional leader in gender equality issues by 2020. 

Cam Ranh airport in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa will become an international airport with the opening of an official direct air route linking Cam Ranh and Vladivostock in Russia on December 12. 

A project funded by the Danish Government has effectively helped raise the capacity of Vietnamese non-governmental organisations (NGOs).

Recent research results show that only one third of rural farmers know how to use electricity and insecticides, while the remaining do not know or know a little about them. Only ten percent of surveyed farmers say they can operate agricultural machines.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung will lead the Vietnamese delegation to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark to show the country’s determination to work with the rest of the world to cope with climate change.

Concrete measures to combat human trafficking and provide aid to its victims topped the agenda of a workshop between Vietnam and Cambodia on December 2-3.

Authorities in the central province of Quang Ngai have unearthed a mass grave, recovering the remains of 33 soldiers who laid down their lives during the war.

The Vietnam Cooperative Alliance (VCA) held a talk on solutions to develop cooperatives and traditional craft villages, in Hanoi on December 3, within the framework of an international fair on cooperatives and SMEs.

In 2008, Ho Chi Minh City Tumour Hospital treated 13,800 patients with tumours, 9,600 were infected with cancer.

Over the past few years, the southern province of Binh Dinh has helped management agencies as well as scientific and technological cadres from the southern provinces of Laos to strengthen managerial skills to control administration and social affairs.  

A national seminar on prevention of accidental injuries in children was held in Hanoi on December 3 by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) in cooperation with the World Health Organisation (WHO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

Professor Ikujiro Nonaka, a world leading expert on economic management talked about the knowledge building and management process at a presentation entitled “Management in the 21st century – From Asia to the World” in Hanoi on December 3.