The "Voice of Heritage" finale celebrated Hanoi's cultural soul as 14 student teams passionately brought the city's rich history to life.

Students are required to spend at least 30 minutes a day studying English on their own, with support from their teachers.

Plans are being drawn up to stockpile medicines in hospitals and a disease control center in Hanoi.

Deputy chairman of HCM City People`s Committee Hua Ngoc Thuan has urged the relevant bodies to bolster efforts towards gender quality.

Over 300 delegates from around the globe gathered in Hue city for a March 15-16 dialogue addressing global standards for education reform.

A project approved by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung will see upgrades to more than 70 traditional medicine hospitals across the country, from now until 2020.

Representatives of Germany’s labour companies made the offer at a reception in Hanoi on March 12 given by vice chairwoman of the Municipal People’s Committee.

As many as 26 world-famous book producers, including Cambridge and Oxford, are expected to join local publishing houses in Ho Chi Minh City’s eighth biennial book festival on March 24-30.

Deputy Director of the Hanoi Department of Health Hoang Duc Hanh on March 11 said the capital is keeping human diseases under control.

Ho Chi Minh City has provided assistance worth 30 billion VND (1.4 million USD) to the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien to help the locality hasten the construction of a general hospital in Muong Ang district, which has halted due to a shortage of funds.

​Up to 94 percent of people receiving eye check-ups are unaware of the effects of glaucoma, a leading cause of blindness, heard a meeting held in Hanoi on March 11 to mark the World Glaucoma Week.

The 8th Book-Culture and Development Fair will be held at Le Van Tam Cultural Park in District 1, HCMC from March 24-30.

The Ministry of Health`s Food Safety Department announced that inspections had not detected unsafe mushrooms.

The Russian Cultural Centre (RCC) in Vietnam on March 10 launched the ‘Russian Universities’ project, part of activities to realise the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc awarded certificates of merit on behalf of the Prime Minister to persons involved with saving victims of the Suspension Bridge collapse in the northern province of Lai Chau.

The implementation of universal health insurance is very necessary to ensure health for all members of the public in the long run, heard a seminar in Ho Chi Minh City on March 10.

The national exam would aims to two purposes – examining the ability of high school students to recognize their completion of general education, and providing information about students’ ability to universities for reference when enrolling students.

The New Zealand Embassy in Hanoi on March 10 announced that it is now accepting scholarship applications from Vietnamese students for the 2015 academic year.

A teacher from the Hanoi-Amsterdam High School, Vu Quoc Lich, pointed out some of the reasons many students are turning away from social subjects, a trend that has been underway for many years.

French non-governmental organization Enfants du Vietnam has donated 116 scholarships worth a total of VND87 million (nearly US$4,000) to poor students in the Mekong delta province of Vinh Long.

Health experts warn variants of influenza and acute respiratory diseases are expected to rise in Ho Chi Minh City during the current dry season.

Dong Nai authorities have officially confirmed an outbreak of avian flu in the locality, bringing the total number of affected areas in the country to 24.

The 2014 conference of the Asia-Pacific Quality Network (APQN) was opened in Hanoi on March 7 focusing on quality assurances for higher education across the region.