IBM is collaborating with the municipal administration in a project to make Danang a smarter city, according to the Danang Department of Information and Communications.

On May 8th, the Health Environment Management Agency under the Ministry of Health coordinated with the Vietnam Unilever Fund to organize a conference reviewing the project on promoting people’s health by improving individual hygiene behaviours and environmental hygiene in 2011, and carry out the project in 2012.

An exhibition displaying 120 paintings by Russian painter Boris Simionovich Iliukhin opened at the Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Museum on May 8 by the city’s Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, to mark the 67th anniversary of the victory over fascism (May 9, 1945 – 2012).

The beautiful landscapes of Vietnam, captured by photographer Hoang Nam, were published on a Russian magazine, Livejournal.

Tuoi Tre newspaper handed Saturday a classroom and a teacher’s dorm room over to Ta Mieu Kindergarten, which primarily consists of makeshift classrooms, in the northern border province of Dien Bien as part of its traditional social responsibility.

Vietnam’s environmental protection strategy aims to promote international cooperation to complete the legal system, improve environmental management skills, apply technology and create financial resources for environmental protection.