As of yesterday, the flooding in Mekong Delta provinces has claimed 24 lives, including 21 children, and injured six others, the Central Steering Board for Flood and Storm Prevention and Control reported.

A seminar was held in HCM City on October 7 by Ho Chi Minh City’s Education and Training Department in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to share experiences in discriminatory treatment against children infected or affected by HIV/AIDS.

The Russia – Vietnam Friendship Association and the Institute of Orient Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences recently have presented a book titled “Soviet Union/ Russia – Vietnam: Cooperative Milestones”.

QUANG NINH — The nation has targeted reducing the percentage of children with special needs to fewer than 5.5 per cent of all children nationwide by 2015, under a new national programme on child protection, the first of its kind, launched yesterday in the northern province of Quang Ninh.

A live television programme linking Hanoi and Moscow will be held on Oct. 31 to mark the 70 th anniversary of the historic military parade on the Red Square and the beginning of the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union (Oct. 7, 1941).