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Beijing (VNA) – Health authorities of the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Macao on December 17 conducted a joint exercise to test their cooperation in the event of a cross-boundary incident of avian flu involving human cases.Code-named “Exercise Great Wall 2008”, the training was jointly organised by the Ministry of Health, the Health Bureau of [...]
Jakarta (VNA) – Indonesia has recently passed new legislation imposing new, tougher safety requirements on commercial air traffic.On December 16, Indonesia’s House of Representatives endorsed an amendment to a 1992 aviation law that would impose stricter safety requirements on airlines, particularly newcomers to the market, in response to demands from the European Union (EU). The [...]
Hanoi (VNA) – Denmark will provide 1.46 million DKK (254,400 USD) for central Quang Nam province to increase its environmental management capacity, the Danish Embassy in Hanoi announced on Dec. 16. The project is part of a 20 million DKK scheme to support capacity development for environmental planning and management, which falls within the framework [...]
Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnamese health sector will urgently strive to expand the school dental programme (SDP) to every part of the nation to try and reduce the high rate of dental diseases in children.At present, the programme only covers eight out of 63 provinces and cities because of a lack of human and financial [...]
Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnam Railway Corporation (VRC) has signed a deal with the Central Japan Railway Company (JR Tokai), regarding the training of engineers in the use of Japanese high-speed rail technology. Under the terms of the newly-inked agreement, the first group of 10 engineers will be sent to Japan to attend the course, [...]
Quang Ninh (VNA) – The Coal and Mineral Industrial Group has set itself the target of producing 33.5 million tonnes of coal in 2009. The total sales target for next year has been set at 36 million tonnes, which includes 2.5 million tonnes stockpiled in reserve stores. The coal and mineral industry’s 2009 targets, which [...]
Thua Thien-Hue Province’s Bach Ma National Park has been extended to increase wildlife protection.— VNA/VNS Photo Tri Dung
HUE — A highly diverse and ecologically important forest area stretching from Hue to the Laos border has been protected thanks to a 4.5-year project.
The “Green Corridor” project, with funding of US$2.57 million from the World Bank, the [...]
Tied up: Vietnamese player Nguyen Minh Chau (second left) vies with a Singapore defender during the semi-final’s first leg match yesterday in Ha Noi. The match ended 0-0. — VNA/VNS Photo Quoc Khanh
HA NOI — Defending champions Singapore tied host Viet Nam nil-nil in the AFF Suzuki Cup’s semi-final first leg match yesterday at Ha [...]
HA NOI — A three-year, US$300,000 education project has begun in northern border provinces to cope with the trafficking of women and girls, HIV/AIDS and sexual violence. Many of the women are sold as prostitutes in China.
The Institute of Repro-ductivity and Family Health has already discussed ways of tackling trafficking and AIDS near the Lang [...]
Hanoi (VNA) – The H5N1 bird flu has spread to Indian eastern state West Bengal since its outbreak in neighboring state Assam last month, news reports said on December 16. The West Bengal government has said strains of the deadly avian flu virus were detected by the national High Security Animal Disease Laboratory in blood [...]