Phan Chinh Thuc, head of the Education and Training Ministry's Vocational Training Department (VTD), said 30 vocational training centres would be built by the end of 2007 with an aim to raise the rate of trained workers and supply more workers to the technical sector. From now to the end of 2010, the VTD also targets raising the rate of trained workers by 26% (Nguoi Lao Dong).

Vietnam has some of the highest abortion rates in the world. That was the finding of a recent study conducted by the Centre of Gender, Family and Development Environment.

The study went on to state that out of all abortions performed in the country, 25% were attributed to unmarried women, with cases among teenagers accounting for 20%.

New Zealand's International Aid and Development Agency (NZAlD) has pledged to grant US$10,000 to help Vietnamese young people with disabilities to have greater access to education.

The project, entitled Education Access for Youth with Disabilities, will be run in Hanoi, by both the Blue Dragon Children's Foundation, and the Disability Forum.

The project aims to raise awareness among educators on disability issues and how to assist youth with disabilities to return to school and vocational training school.

A flock of four or five dolphins have regularly been spotted at Bai Tu Long National Park. The dolphins, which generally congregate around the islands of Ba Mun, Hon Di and the Cong La Vong area in the northern province of Quang Ninh, have been seen by forestry workers and fisherman, said Nguyen Thanh Phuong, the vice director of Bai Tu Long National Park.

Productivity experts from Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam met at a workshop held in Hanoi last week to discuss ways to use industrial boilers to increase energy efficiency.

Part of a project to make energy use more efficient at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the Greater Mekong-Sub-Region of ASEAN, the workshop had participants discussed new technologies for recycling biomass waste.

The project, funded by the ASEAN Foundation and the Asian Productivity Organisation (APO), is being carried out in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam.

All means of transportation will be banned on Chu Y Bridge from September 30 and Cha Va Bridge from November 7 respectively, according to HCM City's East-Western Highway Project and Water Environment Management Board.

In order to cope with increased demand occurring from the closure of the bridges, three temporary bridges will be used for vehicles with a weight of below five tonnes.

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