Social development
Vietnamese university named in top 101-200 of Impact Ranking
Ton Duc Thang University in HCM City has been listed in top 101-200 of The Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings 2019.Ton Duc Thang University ranked high in terms of quality education, sitting among the top 48-59 and in terms of sustainable cities and communities, ...
Hong Hanh
Prime Minister celebrates Chol Chnam Thmay festival with Khmer people
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc joined a gathering in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on April 6 to celebrate the Chol Chnam Thmay – the traditional New Year Festival of Khmer people in the south, which falls from April 14-16 this year.He requested ...
Youth Co:Lab Summit 2019 opens in Hanoi
The second Asia Pacific Youth Co:Lab Summit opened in Hanoi on April 4, attracting the participation of more than 500 delegates, including hundreds of young people, partners and government officials from 20 countries.Co-created in 2017 by UNDP and the Citi Foundation, Youth Co:Lab aims to ...
Jail sentence for Vietnamese suspect in DPRK citizen’s death
The Shah Alam High Court in Selangor state of Malaysia on April 1 sentenced Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, a suspect in the murder of a man holding a Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) passport with the name of Kim Chol, to three years and ...
Vietnam targets ensuring equal labour rights for people with disabilities
Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong in mid-March signed a document ratifying Vietnam joining the International Labour Organisation (ILO)’s Convention 159 on Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment for Disabled Persons. The ratification strongly affirms Vietnam’s commitment to ensuring that workers with disabilities are ...
New university recruitment regulation raises concerns
A new regulation concerning recruitment quotas for public tertiary education institutions in Vietnam has been at the centre of debate among educators and lawmakers.The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) recently decided to use the percentage of students that gained employment after graduation as the ...
Việt Nam on the way to end TB by 2030
Around 12,000 people die from tuberculosis each year in Việt Nam – that’s one and half times higher than those killed in traffic accidents over the same period.Keep reading ...
VNS Reporter
New innovative tools to advance the dengue early warning system in Viet Nam
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Health Organization (WHO), in partnership with a consortium led by HR Wallingford announce a joint project tilted “Dengue Model forecasting Satellite-based System” (D-MOSS), funded the UK Space Agency’s International Partnership Programme. The project aims to develop tools ...
UNDP Vietnam
Việt Nam in urgent need of legislation to prevent child sex abuse
Viet Nam still lacks mechanisms to prevent the abuse of children in various forms and support children victims. Attendees said the abuse of children is still dealt with on a case-by-case basis, and efforts to revise legal documents to correct out-of-date regulations and close loopholes have not ...
VNS Reporter
Nearly 20,000 Vietnamese register for organ donation
Nearly 20,000 people have registered to donor their organs after death so far, a surge compared with that of five years ago. Currently, Vietnam has 19 organ transplantation centres with almost 3,700 cases conducted, of which 3,514 were kidney transplant.Keep reading ...
VNA Reporter