Party leader requires far-reaching implementation of democracy

Tue, 03/05/2002 - 11:10

Ha Noi, Mar. 4 (VNA) -- All organisational and operational activities of Viet Nam's political system in the coming period are aimed at building and gradually perfecting the socialist democracy, which ensures that power is placed in the hands of the people, said Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh.

Mr. Manh was speaking at a two-day national conference, which opened in Ha Noi on Monday, to review the implementation of democratic regulations at the grassroots level.

ESCAP report on handicapped people in Vietnam

Tue, 03/05/2002 - 11:04


Ha Noi, March 3 (VNA) -- Thirty-eight percent of the nearly 5 million handicapped people in Viet Nam receive regular allowances, says an ESCAP report.

The UN's Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), in its February bulletin, reports that 8 percent of the households in Viet Nam have handicapped members. The disabilities are the result of innate defects (34.15 percent), illness and diseases (35.75 percent), consequences of war (19.07 percent), traffic accidents (5.53 percent), labour accidents and other reasons (5.5 percent).

Meeting with returnees to the Central Highlands

Tue, 03/05/2002 - 10:59

Ha Noi, March 5 (VNA) -- Illegal ethnic minority migrants, who just returned to their homes in the Central Highlands, after having spent six difficult months in make-shift Cambodian camps, recently spoke out about their experiences. According to these returnees, evil people had incited them to flee their homeland in the Central Highlands last year.

VN attends conference on people smuggling and trafficking

Fri, 03/01/2002 - 15:44

Ha Noi, Feb. 28 (VNA) -- A Vietnamese delegation, led by Permanent Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Dinh Bin, attended the Regional Ministerial Conference on People Smuggling, Trafficking in Persons, and Related Transnational Crimes held in Bali, Indonesia from Feb. 26-28.

Vietnam's rate of malnutrition reduces annually

Fri, 03/01/2002 - 15:40

Noi, Mar. 1 (VNA) -- Viet Nam's rate of malnourished children saw strong reduction, chalking 31.9 percent last year with most of them being classified at level 1.

Viet Nam's malnutrition rate annually went down by 1.2 percent in the 1980-2001 period, especially by 2.16 percent every year from 1995 to now.

Gia Lai meets with relatives of illegal migrants

Fri, 03/01/2002 - 15:36

Gia Lai, Mar. 1 (VNA) -- The Fatherland Front in central highlands Gia Lai province on Friday met with nearly 500 relatives of ethnic people who were deceived by malefactors into illegally crossing the border to Cambodia.

VN and China agreed to take bilateral ties to a new height

Fri, 03/01/2002 - 15:34

Ha Noi, Mar. 1 (VNA) -- A communique on a three-day official visit to Viet Nam from Feb. 27 to Mar. 1 by Party General Secretary and President Jiang Zemin of China reflects both countries' resolve to take bilateral ties to a new height of development.

The communique, released in Ha Noi on Mar. 1, says Viet Nam and China agreed to maintain the fine tradition of conducting high-level meetings in diverse forms to discuss their bilateral ties as well as regional and international issues of mutual concern.

Painting of VN children awarded gold medals in ASEAN contest

Wed, 02/27/2002 - 00:02

Ha Noi, Feb. 26 (VNA) -- Four of the five gold medals awarded to Vietnamese children at the 2001 ASEAN Children's Painting Contest in Indonesia were pictures about the country's traditional culture.

FM Spokeswoman on UNHCR's halt to the repatriation

Tue, 02/26/2002 - 09:24

On Feb. 25, 2002, MOFA's Spokeswoman Phan Thuy Thanh answered question from many correspondents: Please provide Viet Nam's reaction to reports that the UNHCR temporarily halted the repatriation of Central Highland ethnic illegal border crossers back to Vietnam.

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FM Spokeswoman on Vietnam-China land border treaty

Mon, 02/25/2002 - 12:18

On Feb.5, 2002, MOFA'S Spokeswoman Phan Thuy Thanh answered question from Vietnam News Agency, asking for Vietnam's reaction to assertions that Vietnam made concessions in negotiating and concluding the land border treaty between Vietnam and China.

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