From April 14-19, 2009, a VWU delegation headed by Mrs. H’Ngam Nie KDam, VWU Vice President, and 16 members (including representatives from VWU departments/agencies and some centres for International marriages Supporting and Counseling) paid a study visit to some provinces of Korea.

On March 30th 2009, President of Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) Nguyen Thi Thanh Hoa received the Norwegian working group on partnership between Vietnam and Norway for gender equality

On March 26th 2009, Mrs. H’Ngam Nie K’Dam, Vice-President of the Vietnam Women’s Union conferred the Merit Medal “For the Development of Women in Vietnam” to 8 individuals who have contributed substantially to the cause of women and children health care and health protection.

On the afternoon 2nd February, 2009, in central VWU, Madame Nguyen Thi Thanh Hoa, Member of Central Party Committee, President of VWU has welcomed scholars and Russian enterprises leading by Professor University of St. Peterburge, Mr Zaznobin Vladimir Mikhalovic, on the occasion to visit Vietnam to explore investment opportunities and development of partners in economics, finance and trade.

A forum on co-operative relations in deploying a progarmme on assisting poor districts was organised by the Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Welfare in Hanoi on March 18.

The Vietnam Women’s Union is very happy to be informed that the VIII National Women’s Congress of the Cuban Women’s Union was ended successfully and comrade YOLANDA FERRER GOMEZ was re-selected as General Secretary of Cuban Women’s Union.

At the invitation of the Korean Democratic Women’s Union, Mme Nguyen Thi Thanh Hoa, member of the Vietnam Party Central Committee, president of the Vietnam Women’s Union led the Vietnamese Women’s delegation to pay a friendship visit to Korea during 23-27 Feb, 2009.

from Vietnam Women’s Union

In the morning of February 12th 2009 in Hanoi, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the cooperation of ASEAN Fund, organized a workshop on ASEAN Fund and Solidarity Fund-Japan, with an aim to provide information and guidelines on making proposals for projects to be funding in ASEAN to improve the effectiveness and quality of making proposals and the implementation of cooperative projects in the Initiatives for ASEAN Integration.

In the after noon of the new year event December 30th , 2008, the central of Vietnam Women’s Union organized a ceremony to confer the Merit Medal “For the Development of Women in Vietnam” to Mr. Ian Howie, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFP) Representative in Vietnam.