A billionaire’s dream: Bridging Vietnam with the World

The female billionaire Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao has shown that with talent, hard work and a bold heart to dream and make the dreams come true, any women can...

Vietnam strongly committed to promoting gender equality, women's rights: Ambassador

Delivering a speech at the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) of the UN Economic and Social Council in New York, Vice State...

Vice President meets with female ambassadors, representatives of int'l organisations in Vietnam

Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan hosted a meeting in the northern province of Bac Ninh on March 6 with female foreign ambassadors and chief representatives...

Vietnam calls for promoting security, safety, women’s role in peacekeeping operations

Vietnam emphasised the need for ensuring security and safety for the forces and bases of peacekeeping missions and enhancing women’s role in peacekeeping...

The Center provides comprehensive, free support services for women and children suffering from gender-based violence

The Peace House Shelter has just officially launched the social assistance center, marking an important step forward in providing comprehensive services for...
  • Focus on girls in world day against child labour

    Poverty has long been blamed as the main challenge of Viet Nam’s efforts to eliminate child labour and empower young girls
  • Movement ‘compassionate jar of rice’ helps thousands of poor families in Gia Lai

    Nhan Dan – In response to the campaign “Study and Follow the moral example of Ho Chi Minh’, women from Gia Lai province have launched the saving movement in the diverse and plentiful forms, contributing to helping local poor women to improve their...
  • Ha Long tops new 7 wonders

    Ha Long Bay, one of Vietnam’s two UNESCO natural world heritage sites, is leading the list of 11 candidates of Group G in the second phase of campaign voting for seven new world wonders of nature.
  • Xoan singing proposed as part of world cultural heritage

    The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has asked the Prime Minister for permission to prepare a file to be submitted to UNESCO to gain recognition for the traditional Xoan singing of Phu Tho province as a part of the world’s cultural heritage...
  • Vietnam responds to World Population Day

    Investing in women is a smart choice, said United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Vietnam Representative Bruce Campbell at a press briefing held in Hanoi on July 2 by the Ministry of Health in response to World Population Day (July 11).