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Vu A Dinh Scholarships are given to 155 disadvantaged ethnic minority students with excellent academic performance in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak. (Photo: VNA)
Dak
Lak (VNA) – The Vu A Dinh Scholarship Fund has presented 155 scholarships to disadvantaged ethnic minority students with
excellent academic performance in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak.
Dak
Lak is a multicultural province which is home to 49 ethnic minority groups.
There are approximately 159,600
ethnic minority students, or about 25 percent
of the total, enrolling from kindergarten to high school in the province during
the 2020 – 2021 academic year. Ethnic minorities present around 15 percent of
Scene of a serious traffic accident (Source: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – A total of 14,510
traffic accidents happened across
Vietnam this year to December 23, killing
6,700 people and injuring 10,804
others, the
The figures represented year-on-year decreases of 17.6
percent in the number of cases, 12.12 percent in the number of fatalities and
20.7 percent in the number of injuries.
In the year, 8,177 road accidents killed 6,575 people and
injured 4,354 others. Meanwhile, 91 railway accidents left 71 dead and 23
injured. Sixty-two accidents on waterways claimed the lives of 44 people and
injured seven, while 10 people were killed in 14 maritime accidents.
In December alone, 1,525 traffic accidents claimed 652 lives
and injured 1,152 others, down 13.45 percent, 0.61 percent and 22.27 percent
Hong Kong: Students win at science contest
A team of eight Hong Kong students has won two gold and five silver medals, one bronze medal as well as a gold award in the team competition at the 5th International Olympiad of Metropolises (IOM).
The IOM is an international competition covering informatics, mathematics, physics and chemistry.
Yeung Man-tsung from Pui Ching Middle School won a gold medal and Hsieh Chong-ho from Tsuen Wan Government Secondary School won silver in the informatics competition, while Chu Cheuk-hei and Lai Wai-lok from St Paul s Co-educational College took home gold and silver medals in the mathematics one.