More than 30 years ago, a teenaged girl in Ha Noi heard a rousing song calling for the US to pull out of Viet Nam. The tune touched off a heart-warming personal journey, Xuan Hong and Khanh Chi report.

"Can you give me a cigarette?" a stylish woman asks her boyfriend at a birthday party.

Retired reporter Hoang Van Sac has just received a national prize for a photograph he took 39 years ago of 12 young female volunteers levelling a bomb crater.

Nearly 48.353 employees have benefited from vocational and professional consultancy; 60.000 employees have been provided contemporary work abroad, 90.382 women have been introduced to jobs, 44.998 of those have stable jobs.

Divorce is on the rise in Vietnam and attitudes are changing.

The Government will retain its key role in investment in health care in the next 10-15 years, particularly for poor people, said Health Minister Tran Thi Trung Chien in an recent interview with the Vietnam News Agency.

The Vietnamese Government on January 29 issued a regulation instructing assistance to trafficked women and children to reintegrate into the community.

On 24th May 2007, the VWU’s Presidium promulgated the Plan No. 39 for disseminating and educating laws for women in 2007.

Three sets of materials, which were discussed at a workshop for inputs and comments to develop communication materials on Gender Equality (G.E) on 24 May, are G.E Communication Handbook, GE Questions and Answers, and folding paper introducing some regulations on GE violation, G.E in the fields of politics, culture, education, family to name a few.

The workshop “GIPA project (Greater involvement of people living with HIV/AIDS) and Service providers” was held recently by Ho Chi Minh City Women’s Union. Attending the workshop were representatives of GIPA Project’s Central Management Board, Ho Chi Minh WU and agencies and organizations working in the field of HIV/AIDS prevention.

To celebrate the X th National Women’s Congress, recently, the Standing Committee of Lai Chau Women’s Union has launched an emulation movement with a range of targets:

This is an activity to enhance awareness on drug and HIV/AIDS communication and prevention, especially awareness of drug prevention by families for a community without drugs addicts for all strata of women and ethnics within the district.

HA NOI — Dao Minh Phuong has devoted her life to helping children affected by disabilities and Agent Orange become fully integrated into society.

Lying under the roof of the calm Dieu Giac Pagoda in the new urban area south of Ho Chi Minh City, Dieu Giac Orphanage is home to over 130 unfortunate children

A report about the consequences of Agent Orange in Vietnam has been screened by American PBS Television.

VietNamNet Bridge - She cried when she heard her name called aloud in the night of Miss Disabled 2006. She was crowned! The enthronement, however, did not cause any surprise for her teachers or friends as she was a beautiful, young woman of versatile talent.

The Prime Minister has asked the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Trade, and Planning and Investment to push up foreign-related activities in 2007

On 14th May 2007, a Non-refunded Assistance Agreement for the Project on Establishing a Vocational Training Center for women in Quang Binh province was signed by the Japanese Embassy in Vietnam and Quang Binh Women’s Union

Income generation and health improvement of disadvantaged groups (older people, women and ethnic minorities) through promoting intergenerational approaches in 60 communities in Thai Nguyen province

Finishing of the 5-year term (2003-2007), UNAIDS Representative Mme. Nancy Fee has left great impression in Vietnamese friends and colleagues as a very enthusiastic, sincere and hard working woman and is heading to Indonesia to her new post there