Twelve expat Vietnamese youngsters arrived in Vietnam Monday sponsored by the US Catalyst Foundation for a 10-day trip to help local underprivileged kids and discover their home country in the process.

Lonely older people without income will be entitled to community-based support (minimum 65,000 VND/month) or housed in the Government’s social protection centers with the support of 140.000VND/month.

 

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET), Education Sectoral Committee for the Advancement of Women and Education Sectoral Trade Union held a get-together of distinguished lectures, teachers and administration staff on March 6.

The Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) and the United Nations Country Team in Viet Nam on 21 February 2006 launched a major joint project to promote greater involvement of people living with HIV in HIV/AIDS programmes in the country.

Mr. Pham The Duyet, President of the Central Fatherland’s Front (CFF) has sent greetings message to the Catholics and Protestants on the occasion of Christmas 2005,

Harm reduction programmes have brought effective results to Vietnam's HIV/AIDS fight in recent years among the rapid spread of the epidemic.

Vietnam, which has always boasted a young population, is all set to age since its fertility rate is at the replacement level of 2.1, a recent census has found.

The Vietnam-Japan Joint Committee for Tourism Cooperation convened its first session in the resort city of Dalat, central highland Lam Dong Province, on December 9, 2005.

By the end of September this year, Vietnam had 101,291 HIV/AIDS positive people, 16,528 of whom have developed full-blown AIDS and 9,554 have died of the disease.