Archive for June 24th, 2008

Hanoi – Vietnam has become one of the 20 countries sending the highest number of students to the United States , with 30 percent more students enrolled in US universities and colleges in 2007 than the previous year, said a US official.
President and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of International Education Allan Goodman [...]

Hanoi – Media agencies and localities nationwide have been provided with training documents tailored to strengthen their capacity in drug prevention and control.
At a ceremony held in Hanoi on June 26, the documents were released as part of a comprehensive drug prevention through communications and community mobilisation project of the United Nations Office on [...]

Hanoi – Up to 90 percent of prostitutes in Vietnam are now aware of preventing HIV by using condoms, a senior anti-HIV/AIDS official said, adding this has been helpful to the country’s fight against the deadly disease.
Director Dr. Nguyen Thanh Long of the HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Department made the remarks at a seminar [...]

Hanoi – The Japanese Toshiba Corp on June 24 launched a programme of planting 1,000 trees at the Nam Son waste treatment complex in the Soc Son district of Hanoi.
The programme, in cooperation with the Vietnam-Japan Friendship Association, is to celebrate the 35 th anniversary of the two countries’ diplomatic relations.
It is also part [...]

Berlin – Former Vice President Truong My Hoa joined hundreds of Vietnamese and Germans in a charity walk in Germany ’s Bochum city to raise fund for Vietnamese Agent Orange victims.
Hoa, now President of the Sponsorship Council, joined the June 22 event while leading a delegation of the Community Mobilising and Supporting Fund on [...]

Hanoi – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has banned individuals and organisations from organising stock transaction floors illegally in a bid to strengthen the management of the stock market and ensure its sustainable growth.
In instruction 20/2008/CT-TTg issued on June 23, the PM has forbidden enterprises that are non-Vietnamese legal entities to offer or sell [...]

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