Vietnam wants UNHCR to continue repatriation of illegal migrants

Thu, 03/14/2002 - 10:10

Ha Noi, March 13 (VNA) -- A Foreign Ministry spokeswoman today called on the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to fulfil the tripartite agreement which it signed with Viet Nam and Cambodia dealing with the repatriation of illegal Vietnamese migrants now in camps in Cambodia.

The spokeswoman, Phan Thuy Thanh, made the statement in reply to foreign reporters' questions on the results of a meeting for that purpose held by Viet Nam, Cambodia and the UNHCR in Ho Chi Minh City on March 12, which she described as frank and constructive.

US citizen slams slanderous accusations against Vietnam

Thu, 03/14/2002 - 10:07


Andrew Wells-Dang, Washington-based representative of the US Fund for Reconciliation and Development (FRD), has strongly criticised slanderous accusations by Michael Benge, Florida Republican Representative, Mrs Ileana Ros-Lebtinen and exiled Vietnamese in France about the human rights situation in Vietnam.

"More than 25 years after the Vietnam War ended... some people are still trying to fight the war by other means," said Andrew in his article published by the Washington Times on Sunday (March 10) edition.

FM rejects the U.S State Dept's human rights report 2001

Wed, 03/06/2002 - 18:00

Ha Noi, March 6 (VNA) -- Viet Nam's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Phan Thuy Thanh on Wednesday rejected as a crude slander the U.S. State Department's human rights report in 2001 criticizing some countries including Viet Nam.

"The report has grossly distorted the reality in Viet Nam as it made a series of slanderous accusations with false evidence," Ms. Thanh said in response to foreign and domestic correspondents' queries about Viet Nam's reaction to the U.S. human rights report issued on March 4.

Aspiration for family reunion relatives of illegal immigrants

Tue, 03/05/2002 - 11:41

Central Highlands province Gia Lai

Government holds February meeting

Tue, 03/05/2002 - 11:23


Ha Noi, Mar. 5 (VNA) -- Bustling local markets and increased consumer and service indexes in the first two months of this year had a positive impact on the country's industrial production and service, Prime Minister Phan Van Khai remarked.

He made the comment at the government's monthly regular meeting held in Ha Noi on Mar. 4-5.

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.

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