VIETNAMESE NEWSPAPER HIGHLIGHTS - APRIL 7, 2008.

HANOI, April 7 Asia Pulse - Highlights of today's newspapers:

ALL DAILIES:

- Leaders of the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO) stressed that as a ruling party, FRELIMO would work hard to strengthen solidarity, friendship and cooperation between FRELIMO and the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) as well as between the States and people of Mozambique and Vietnam.

HANOI MOI & LAO DONG:

- Construction started for a job-training school for disabled and disadvantaged children in northern Thai Binh province. The AL & Peggy Dematteis Family Fund donated US$180,000 to the project.

TIN TUC:

- A cherry blossom festival in Hanoi on April 6 attracted thousands of local people who came to admire real Sakura flowers from Japan. Three hundred branches of Sakura have been flown in from Japan for the festival, which is held for the second time in Hanoi. About 150 posters and pictures of Japan's landscapes, spring and cherry blossom were on display and short films about a modern Japan made by overseas Vietnamese students in Japan were also displayed at the festival. Forty organisations and individuals in Japan have donated to the organisation of the festival, which is one of the activities to mark 35 years of Vietnam-Japan diplomatic relations.

QUAN DOI NHAN DAN:

- France: Charitable concert held in support of Vietnamese Agent Orange /dioxin victims.

- Two more hydroelectric plants will be built in the northwestern region.

KHOA HOC & CONG NGHE:

- The number of websites with the .vn domain name is rapidly increasing, according to the Vietnam National Internet Centre (VNNIC) under the Ministry of Information and Communications. By the end of March 2008, the VNNIC had granted more than 62,000 .vn domain names, markedly higher than the 40,000 sites registering with international domain names during the same period.

THOI BAO KINH TE VIETNAM:

- Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung approved a three-year project to upgrade clinic hospitals at the provincial and multi-provincial levels. The projects goal is to extend health services across Vietnams rural areas.

THANH NIEN:

- The Vietnamese government has authorised the formation of a central committee headed by Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai to regulate the Governments housing policies, and to advise Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on the issue.

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