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.

More than 575.000 candidates have been sitting for the second phase of the university entrance exam since this morning.

Chen Zhao Long, Director of Chang Geng Hospital of Taiwan (China), said his hospital sent its best doctors to the healthcare programme from July 6-12, adding that on the occasion, it will organise a symposium to introduce Taiwan’s medical advances to Dong Nai General Hospital.

The students will be selected from 50 colleges and universities, who are gifted, in need and from remote and mountainous regions, with a priority on female students.

They help the visitors in several ways including finding accommodation, providing free meals and showing them the way to get from one place to another.

More than 1.6 million rural labourers received vocational training between 2010 and 2013 under a project on rural vocational training until 2020, it was announced at a July 4 meeting of the Central Steering Committee for implementing the project.

Famous universities with a high number of registered applicants saw low rates of exam participation this year.

At 7.15 am this morning, more than 570,000 high school students started doing maths in the national university entrance examinations with 180 minute allowed time.

The health ministry continues to expand vaccination campaigns, and plans to launch a new measles-Rubella vaccination drive targeting children from 1-14 years old in September.

​Students from around the country have been flocking to the Temple of Literature in Hanoi to pray for luck before the upcoming university entrance exams.

Global leaders attending a health forum in South Africa from June 30 to July 1 applauded the effectiveness of Vietnam’s programmes addressing maternal, neonatal and child health issues.

The meeting between Vietnam’s Minister of Education and Training Pham Vu Luan and representatives from 11 Belgium universities took placeon the sidelines at the Second Global Partnership (GPE) for Education Replenishment Conference ongoing in Brussels from June 25-28.

Vietnam cut child deaths by 2.4 million and maternal deaths by about 70,000 compared to 1990 mortality rates.

The Ha Noi People`s Committee has asked for a 20-per-cent increase of fees applied to 1,300 categories of medical services at public hospitals in its proposal to the municipal People`s Council.

This year was the first time the vaccine against Japanese encephalitis was supplied free-of-charge in all districts in the nation`s 63 provinces and cities.

Moreover, the two sides will suggest to the governments of Vietnam and the U.S. measures to further improve the bilateral cooperation.

Business schools are the targets of many [ Vietnamese students, who believe that the finance & banking sector can offer better job opportunities. But they are wrong.

The Scholarship Programme to Enhance Literacy and Learning (SPELL) recently awarded scholarships valued at US$3.7 million to roughly 40,000 disadvantaged children in seven central provinces.

Vietnam and Canada have signed a letter of intent (LOI) aimed at strengthening mutual understanding and expanding educational cooperation.

Tran Duc Canh, a founding member of Phan Chau Trinh University suggested mergers of many universities to reduce the number of schools in Vietnam by one third.

Vietnamese representatives along with nearly 1,000 delegates from 60 partnering nations and territories around the globe have assembled at the Second Global Partnership (GPE) for Education Replenishment Conference ongoing in Brussels from June 25-28.