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Vietnam teacher investigated for caning boys 

December 3, 2011
Vietnam teacher investigated for caning boys 

Fourth graders with bruised butts caused by their teacher's beating in southern Vietnam. Several fourth graders in southern Vietnam have been sent to the hospital to have their injuries checked, after there were accusations that a teacher had beaten them at school.   Parents of seven boys from Binh Phuoc Province, around 80 kilometers from [...]

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I don’t need no education 

August 28, 2011
I don’t need no education 

11-year-old Pham Thanh Ngoc gets her math homework checked by a local math teacher. The girl recently applied for a public high school Pham Thanh Ngoc did not drop out of school. She just refused to go to school, from kindergarten onward. However, Ngoc’s reluctance to attend school was not of the usual variety. It [...]

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Giving children their due 

August 7, 2011
Giving children their due 

  Leslie Wiener with disadvantaged and HIV positive children from Smile Group After three decades of working in film and television in two of the most exciting cities in the world, Leslie Wiener came to Vietnam and decided to stay. What made her change direction and decide to stay in Ho Chi Minh City, where [...]

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Nursery teacher gets four years for putting child in elevator as punishment 

July 17, 2011
Nursery teacher gets four years for putting child in elevator as punishment 

Kindergarten teacher Tran Thi Xuan Nu at the Friday trial. A kindergarten teacher in Ho Chi Minh City was sentenced Friday to four years in jail for confining a boy in an elevator in September last year, causing severe injuries.   Tran Thi Xuan Nu was found guilty of “deliberately causing injuries” after she punished [...]

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Southern kindergartens close amid rising HFMD threat 

July 17, 2011
Southern kindergartens close amid rising HFMD threat 

A mother looks at a closure notice in front of Vang Anh kindergarten in Ho Chi Minh City Wednesday. Several kindergartens have been shut down across Ho Chi Minh City this week as a hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) scare sweeps the country.   Vang Anh nursery school in District 8 closed its summer classes [...]

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Ministry says no deviance allowed from national marking guidelines 

June 23, 2011
Ministry says no deviance allowed from national marking guidelines 

Students check the results of their high school graduation exams at the Marie Curie High School, Ho Chi Minh City, on Thursday. The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) on Saturday issued a statement expressly banning any instructions than the ones that it has issued for marking the recently held high school graduation exams.   [...]

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Mother forgives teachers in class trip death 

May 15, 2011
Mother forgives teachers in class trip death 

  The parents of drowned autistic boy hope his special education school (one of the few in Vietnam) will remain open in the wake of tragedy A class at the Bim Bim Kindergarten, for autistic children, in Ho Chi Minh City’s Binh Thanh District Nguyen Dinh Huy Cuong remembers stopping to buy vermicelli soup for [...]

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Low pay chases teachers away from public kindergartens 

January 8, 2011
Low pay chases teachers away from public kindergartens 

  With thousands of public kindergarten teachers getting jobs in the private sector, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are experiencing a severe shortage of teachers. Statistics released by Hanoi government showed that the city lacks 2,898 kindergarten teachers. Investigations showed that many teachers have asked for a long-term leave without payment to run barber [...]

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High school vice-principal accused of having sex with 11th-grader 

December 14, 2010

  A high school vice principal in the northern province of Vinh Phuc has rejected claims that he has confessed to having sex with one of his students. News website VietnamNet reported Wednesday that the family of a schoolgirl has said Nguyen Van Huan of Ben Tre High School has admitted to having sex with their [...]

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City schools add yoga 

December 10, 2010
City schools add yoga 

Children at a Ho Chi Minh City kindergarten during a yoga session Yoga has become a part of the daily routine for Ho Chi Minh City schoolchildren - grades K to 12.   Tre Tho (Little Children) kindergarten in Tan Binh District says it was the first school in Vietnam to include yoga in their syllabus.   The children begin their lessons [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...