Da Nang to provide free schooling for next year
The People’s Council of central Da Nang city has approved free schooling for students from kindergarten to high school in the 2023-2024 academic year with a budget of 408 billion VND (16.3 million USD). The decision was ratified at the council’s working session earlier this ...
Int'l conference on digital health held
The Vietnam Military – Civil Medicine Association, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MoH)’s Health Strategy and Policy Institute and the Iverson Health Innovation Research Institute of Australia’s Swinburne University of Technology, held an international conference on digital health on November 8.Held both in-person ...
Viet Nam: Secondary Education Sector Assessment, Strategy and Road Map
The report reviews sector achievements and challenges as well as the Government of Viet Nam’s strategy and policies. It also outlines how the Asian Development Bank and other development partners have contributed to the sector. The report provides recommendations on measures to boost access to ...
Asian Development Bank
UK helps boost access to quality education for Southeast Asian girls, women
The United Kingdom (UK) launched a Girls’ Education and Skills Program following the UK-ASEAN Plan of Action at the 2023 Education World Forum.The new program targets to offer some of the most marginalized women and girls in Southeast Asia a better future by boosting access ...
Thuy Dung
Efforts made to ensure vaccines for expanded immunisation programme
The Ministry of Health is working hard to ensure vaccine supply for the national expanded programme on immunisation (EPI), heard a regular Government press conference in Hanoi on December 6. Deputy Minister Nguyen Thi Lien Huong noted that the EPI, launched in 1985, is providing immunisation ...
Vietnam develops open educational resources for higher education
Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha has signed Decision No. 1117/QD-TTg approving a programme to develop open educational resources for higher education.Under the programme, in the 2023-2026 period, a portal of open educational resources will be built and put into operation, providing learning, teaching, and ...
Project to improve ethnic minority children’s access to education
A project designed to help girls, especially those in ethnic minority areas, get access to education, was launched by UNESCO in Hanoi on April 25. Financed by the UNESCO Malala Fund for Girls’ Right to Education, the “We are able” project will focus on four key fields, including raising public ...
UNDP pledges to help Vietnam in human rights-based approach to climate action
The UN Development Programme (UNDP) held policy discussion on the human rights and climate change nexus in Hanoi on October 18, focusing on how to achieve a just, green and sustainable environmental development with principles of equity and human rights at the centre.With the support ...
UNDP assists Mekong Delta in drought response efforts
The UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the Partnership for Disaster Risk Reduction under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) signed an agreement on March 17 to support the Mekong Delta’s response to drought and saltwater intrusion.It has also carried out assessment of drought ...
Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Water Resources Sharing Platform: Building Voice, Improving Best Practice
Earlier this year, CICP has initiated a new research project entitled” Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Water Resources Sharing Platform: Building Voice, Improving Best Practice” with the kind support of Oxfam in Cambodia. The project attempts to explore how to support and positively impact the development of this ...
Oxfarm
Mekong Women in Data: Understanding barriers to women’s access to open data in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam
Gender inequality underscores the lives of women all over the world. At the Open Development Initiative, we wanted to understand how this impacted women in the Mekong countries of Cambodia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Myanmar, and Vietnam (CLMV) in their access to open data.In 2019, ...
Open Development Mekong
Mekong Delta focusing on water supply projects in salinity intrusion areas
The Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry has held a meeting in Bac Lieu Province to introduce clean water criteria in upgrading rural areas in the Mekong Delta.Statistics from the Irrigation Department (under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) reveal that in the Mekong Delta, ...
Tan Thai, Yen Nhi
Vietnam Personal Data Protection Decree
The Vietnamese government recently promulgated Decree 13/2023/ND-CP on the protection of personal data , which takes effect on 1 July 2023. This Decree is the primary legislation governing personal data protection in Vietnam, applying to both domestic and overseas entities directly involved in or related ...
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Vietnam makes slow progress in listing its banks
Nhiều ngân hàng ở Việt Nam vẫn chậm niêm yết cổ phiếu lên sàn mặc dù chính phủ đặt mục tiêu sẽ có 10 ngân hàng niêm yết cổ phiếu từ năm 2013 đến 2016. Đọc tiếp ...
Nikkei Reporter
Highlights on Gender and Ethnic minority in Vietnam
Gender disaprity within and between 53 ethnic minority groups and the majority Kinh people persists in almost all socio-economic aspects in Vietnam. Social norms for ethnic minority cultures typically value women and girls less than men and boys. Unpaid household tasks and duties are assigned, ...