Hanoi plans to invest approximately VND8 trillion (USD374 million) to modernise its post and telecommunication infrastructure during 2012-2020 period.

(CPV) - US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Ms Kathleen Sebelius, on June 18 concluded a 2-day visit to Vietnam as part of an Asia-Pacific regional tour to foster international collaboration and mobilize resources to enhance global health security.

A launch ceremony for exam season support programme has been held in the central city of Da Nang with the participation of 1,500 volunteer students in the city.

From June 15 to August 15, the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology will hold a training course on grass knitting for students in Hanoi, to educate them to love and respect traditional culture.

(CPV) – Vietnamese and international experts are gathering in Hanoi from June 17-21 at the international conference titled “Epidemiological status of kissing bugs in Vietnam".

A centre was opened at Hanoi’s University of Technology on June 15 to find the second Vietnamese to fly into space.

The Japanese Government will give USD243,000 to the expansion of a secondary school in central Thanh Hoa province and the building of a new primary school in northern Nam Dinh province.

Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long has warned people in Vietnam and other ASEAN member countries of the occurrence and spread of dengue in the region and the world.

According to the Ministry of Education and Training, six Vietnamese students have been officially listed to participate in the 54^th International Mathematics Olympiad.

(CPV) - Professor Scott O’Neill, program leader of the “Global Eliminate Dengue Research Program” and Dean of Science at Monash University (Australia) chaired a roundtable and gave a lecture on eliminating dengue at the Hanoi Medical University on June 11.

The Vietnamese Government and people have always been determined to care for children and implement the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in particular, said a senior official from the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA).

The Vietnamese and Mongolian Ministries of Health will increase cooperation in training, scientific research, pharmaceutical manufacturing, preventive medicine, and traditional medicine.

Nearly 250 elderly people in Hanoi have been given consultancy on protecting and caring for their health, at a seminar on “Food security and reasonable nutrition - Providing healthcare for the elderly”.

(CPV) - Six teams of Vietnamese students will participate in the fourth fuel saving vehicle manufacturing contest, the Shell Eco-marathon Asia 2013, which will take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, between July 4-7.

(CPV) – A large-scale distribution of medicine to help nearly 920,000 children in disadvantaged provinces fend off intestinal worms has been completed on June 4 by the Vietnam’s Ministries of Health and Education and Training.

More than 2,100 free meals have been provided to poor students from remote and mountainous areas participating in the high school final examinations in Hue City, being held from June 2-4.

On June 2, the Exam Season Support Programme 2013 started with a launch ceremony at the Youth Culture House in Ho Chi Minh city.

(CPV) - The World Bank has approved two credits worth USD250 million to Vietnam for the Northeast and Red River Delta regions health system support (NORRED) project and the fostering innovation through research, science and technology (FIRST) project.

(CPV) - The first ever plant functioning in collection and treatment of domestic wastewater in Binh Duong province was opened in Thu Dau Mot city on May 31.

(CPV) - The handover ceremony of a package of automation equipments sponsored by Siemens Vietnam Industry Automation takes place at Can Tho University at the end of May 2013 as part of Siemens’s strong commitment to further support the engineering education in Vietnam.