The Vice Minister of Health, Trinh Quan Huan, on August 26 called for more efforts to be made to detect cases of A/H1N1 influenza iin schools, especially primary schools and kindergartens.

Can Tho City on August 26 was busy celebrating the 64 anniversary of the August Revolution and National Day (September 2).

The Hanoi Culture-Sports and Tourism Department will hold a series of events to promote the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi and the 2010 national year of tourism to tourists from Japan and China.

A representative office for Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security was officially inaugurated in Laos’s capital city of Vientiane on August 26.

Vietnam and Japan signed a co-operative agreement on training Vietnamese apprentices in Tokyo on August 26.

The government of Japan has provided nearly US$162,000 in non-refundable aid to help implement projects to build infrastructure in two districts in the northern province of Cao Bang.

A new foot-and-mouth outbreak has hit 100 domestic animals in the three districts of Gio Linh, Huong Hoa and Vinh Linh and Dong Ha town in central Quang Tri province.

The remains of volunteer Vietnamese soldiers and experts who died in the Lao province of Savanakhet will be repatriated during the 2009-2010 dry season.

One month after launching a “fund for the poor”, a charitable organisation in central Da Nang City has raised nearly VND700 million for the poor.

The Vietnam Railways Corporation has reduced the price of train tickets for a bed on the Hanoi-Nanning route by 45 percent to attract more travellers.

Deputy PM Hoang Trung Hai has instructed the Ministry of Planning and Investment to include the railway project to connect Hoa Hung in Ho Chi Minh City to Trang Bom in Dong Nai City on the list of ODA capital loans to be negotiated with the Japanese government for the fiscal year 2009-2010.

Thirty Vietnamese customs and banking officials have attended a two-day workshop on combating cash smuggling and trade-based money laundering which opened in Ho Chi Minh City on August 25.

This means they will be able to be used in all countries in the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN).

A number of domestic and overseas environmental experts met in the central city of Da Nang on August 25 to share their experiences in coping with climate change.

The Ministry of Health has affirmed that there will be no shortage of Tamiflu for the treatment of A/H1N1 flu patients at State-run health establishments.

The Hanoi Urban Environment Company (URENCO) on August 25 put another wastewater treatment plant into operation in the outlying district of Soc Son.

Special missions from Vietnam and Laos, in charge of repatriating the remains of Vietnamese voluntary soldiers fallen in combat in Laos, met in Dong Ha city, in the central province of Quang Tri, on August 25.

Construction of a cross-border check-point on the Vietnam-Laos border commenced in Laos’s Attopeu province on August 25.

A ceremony was held in Vientiane on August 25 to inaugurate and hand over to the Lao Ministry of National Security a centre for criminal science - a project built with the Vietnamese government’s non-refundable aid.

A ceremony will be held to honour the best graduates from colleges and universities in 2009, the Hanoi Youth Union Committee announced at a press briefing in Hanoi on August 25.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs on August 25 organised a ceremony to see Vietnam’s entrants off to participate in the 40th WorldSkills Competition held in Calgary, Canada.

A delegation of officials from the Vietnamese Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and 17 businesses began their tour of four major cities in China on August 25.

Vietnam should take full advantage of this time as a good opportunity to develop Information Technology (IT) human resources, said representatives at a seminar in Hanoi on August 25 to discuss market demand and an overall plan to expand Vietnam’s IT human resources.

Vietnam is one of the five Asian countries that has made great progress in HIV/AIDS prevention, said Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Michel Sidibe.

In the past four months, poor districts in the northwestern region have received more than VND1 trillion as part of the government’s rescue package.

Around 60 Danish families which have adopted Vietnamese children have gathered at an annual meeting in Copenhagen to share experiences in raising their children.

59 more people tested positive for the A/H1N1 virus on August 24 alone, raising the total number of confirmed cases to 2,073 so far, including 2 deaths, the Ministry of Health reported.

Almost 200 domestic and foreign project managers and scientists are gathering in the central highland province of Lam Dong to discuss the clinical tests of new drugs and standard procedures for biomedicine research on humans.

Taiwan’s capital city of Taipei held a Vietnamese Cultural Day on August 23 to acknowledge the contributions made by thousands of Vietnamese people who are currently working in the territory.

Professor Tran Thanh Van, Chairman of the Meet Vietnam Organisation has presented 432 scholarships valued at nearly VND2 billion in total to students in Ho Chi Minh City on August 24.