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HCM City (VNS/VNA) - The Ho Chi Minh City University of Economics earlier this week launched the Institute of Smart Cities and Management (ISCM), whose mission will be to mobilise international cooperation in addressing urban issues globally. The launch was attended by officials from economics, urban studies, transport, and environment universities and organisations from Asia, Europe and the US. Su Dinh Thanh, Rector of the HCM City University of Economics, said the institute aims to become a smart city training and research institute that uses technology and critical thinking as powerful tools to solve urban problems of the future.  “I believe that ISCM and our partners will contribute to improving the quality of education and urban life through three activities — integrated education, research and development, and solving practical problems through projects.” Dr Trinh Tu Anh, director of the new institute, said it aims to develop education integrated … [Read more...] about University sets up Institute of Smart Cities and Management

The Center for City Disease Control was assigned to work closely with management boards of quarantine wards to perform supervisions on these special areas as well as carry tests on all people according to the Ministry of Health’s regulations. All state competent bodies must be determined not let the disease spread in the quarantine wards from which spread to the community. … [Read more...] about HCMC enhances health quarantine procedure

Speaking at the inauguration of the plant, Chairman of An Giang province People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Binh highly valued the group’s efforts for the past years as the group’s solar power plant in the border province Tinh Bien has helped to change the rural district’s face. Moreover, the group has contributed greatly to the province’s budget and offered more employment to locals in the countryside. … [Read more...] about VIETNAM BUSINESS NEWS JANUARY 16

By 2030, the income per capita of people from ethnic minority groups is hoped to be raised to half of the national average. The programme also aims to cut the number of poor households to less than 10 per cent of the total number of households, with no hamlets or communes in extremely difficult conditions and 70 per cent of communes in ethnic minority and mountainous areas meeting new rural area criteria. … [Read more...] about VIETNAM NEWS JANUARY 16

Vietnam has issued the National Strategy on Gender Equality for the period 2011-2020 with the aim of raising awareness, narrowing the gender gap and enhancing the status of women; actively implementing international and regional initiatives to promote the protection of women's rights and fight discrimination against women. The goal of equality between men and women and empowering women and girls, one of the three millennium goals (MDG 2013), was completed by Vietnam before the 2015 deadline, making Vietnam one of countries that eliminated gender gap the fastest in the past 20 years. … [Read more...] about Vietnam obtains important achievements in empowering girls