Duyệt theo December, 2008

India to help Vietnam in gene preservation

India is willing to help train Vietnamese specialists in gene preservation, said a Ministry of Science and Technology official. Le Minh Sat, deputy director of the ministrys Department of Scie…

Huge sweep cleans-up highways

A national highway turns into a rice drying ground..- About 80 per cent of encroachments on Highway 21A and 21B were cleared away in a four-day sweep that began last Friday, involving …

Nation misses poverty reduction goals for 2008

Vietnams poverty rate at the end of 2008 is lower than the 2007 figure at 13.1 percent, but remains higher than the goal of 12 percent set by the government at the beginning of the year, accor…

Denmark helps Vietnam cope with climate change

The Danish Government will provide a non-refundable aid worth 40 million USD for Vietnam to carry out a programme on adaptation to and mitigation of impacts of climate change in the 2009-2013 per…

Gov’t and blog service providers to stop “black” blogs together

Deputy Minister Do Quy Doan (middle) at the press conference.. At a press conference about the new circular guiding information provisions on blogs on Tuesday, Deputy Minister of In…

FAO helps Nam Dinh control bird flu

The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has selected the northern province of Nam Dinh to carry out a pilot project on collecting bird flu information through SMS, according to Ninh Van Hi…

Fewer overseas Vietnamese returning home in economic crisis

The HCM City-based Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs predicted that this year around 370,000 overseas Vietnamese will return home via the Tan Son Nhat Airport during the lunar New Year, fewer than last year due to the global economic crisis.

IT Awards go to young talents

The Ho Chi Minh Youth Union Central Committee, on Tuesday, presented the Golden Globe IT and the Outstanding IT Female Student Awards to young IT talents in Hanoi.. Of the ten win…

SOCIAL IN BRIEF 31/12

Nation spends 5.5 trillion VND on programme 135. . Over 11 thousand infrastructure projects, including roads, bridges, irrigational facilities, schools, medical centres and power gri…

Top ten information and communication events of 2008

The launching of Vinasat-1 satellite tops the annual list of prominent information and communication events for 2008..- The successful launch of Vietnam s first sat…