Social Affairs

The Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) and the Ministry of Health jointly held a ceremony in Hanoi on May 29 to launch the programme "Woman with the creating smoke-free homes" to mark World No Tobacco Day (May 31) and the 2015 National Week of No Tobacco (May 25 - 31, 2016).

A total of 70 best works of the National External Information Service Awards 2015 were honoured at a ceremony in Hanoi on May 28.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Laos Nguyen Manh Hung has recently been invited as the main speaker at a talk on late President Ho Chi Minh at the Lao Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment on May 27.

In the response to the World No Tobacco, May 31, Vietnam organised a No Tobacco Week from May 25-31 to continue raising the awareness about the harms of tobacco smoking and reinforcing the enforcement of the Law of Prevention and Control of Tobacco Harms.

Reforming administrative procedures, improving the quality of human resources and increasing the application of technology are keys to the successful international integration and sustainable development of the Mekong Delta region.

Along with the Vietnamese Government’s resolve and endeavours, support given by the United Nations (UN), is significant to help Vietnam reach the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan said at the meeting with UN Resident Coordinator Pratibha Mehta in Hanoi on May 25.

The ongoing landmark visit of US President Barack Obama to Vietnam continues to make headlines on regional and international media, on May 24.

Hanoi held a ceremony on May 24 to honour more than 1,000 outstanding students who achieved top results in the international, regional and domestic competitions in the 2015-2016 school year.

Vietnam and Mozambique can cooperate in several transportation areas as the two countries share similarities in geography and own a four-decade traditional solidarity and friendship, said Transport Minister Truong Quang Nghia.

US President Obama’s Vietnam visit beginning May 23 is one of the highlights on foreign press in recent days.

A number of the US newspapers have recently published articles highlighting the warming relationship between the US and Vietnam on the threshold of the US President’s visit to Vietnam.

In the jubilant atmosphere of tens of millions voters nationwide, more than 5.2 million citizens in Hanoi city exercised their rights to choose deputies to the 14th National Assembly (NA) and all-level People’s Councils for 2016-2021 on May 22.

Two teams of blind young people living in a HCM City shelter have created websites for job search and providing resume consultancy targeted at blind people that have won funding from a UNICEF programme to commercialise them.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment held a start-up workshop on “Rolling-out of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Vietnam” in Hanoi on May 19.

According to joint action programme to support farmers affected by drought, saltwater intrusion, and massive fish deaths, the relevant agencies will mobilise necessary financial resources in June 2016 and transfer the money to support the affected localities in July.

The largest commemorative site for President Ho Chi Minh outside Vietnam was inaugurated in Nachok village, Muang district, in Thailand’s northeastern province of Nakhon Phanom on May 19, the date of the late President’s birthday.

Vietnam National Museum of History in Hanoi is dislaying an exhibition to highlight the role of Viet Minh Front in raising unity for the ultimate goal of national independence.

Major socio-political organisations signed a 2016-2019 cooperation programme for people-to-people diplomacy and overseas Vietnamese affairs at a ceremony in Hanoi on May 18.

Chairman of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations Vu Xuan Hong awarded the insignia, named “For peace and friendship among nations” to Director of the Russian Centre of Science and Culture in Hanoi, Zubtsova Elena Robertovna, on May 17 on the occasion of ending her working term in Vietnam.

The French School of the Far East (EFEO), an institute dedicated to studying Asian societies, gave an Honourary Doctorate degree to Historical Professor Phan Huy Le.