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Amongst those celebrating todays birthday, the staff of a nearby care home. Captain tom has become a local hero. And these birthday celebrations go far and wide. Jersey, tamworth and downing street. Captain tom, i know i speak for the whole country when i say we wish you a very happy 100th birthday. But the most startling sight is this. Captain toms birthday cards. 140,000 of them. Very emotional. Its amazing. Im really proud because ive known my grandad all my life and lived with him all my lif...

This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. The uk government insists that it continues to be led by science over the next stages of the easing of lockdown measures after concerns were raised by some leading scientists. We need to proceed in a very cautious way. So we have set out a road map, but at each stage we are saying we are not going to proceed with that unless we are confident that we can do so in a safe way. The return of competitive sport is a...

The Australian-funded Gender Responsive Equitable Agriculture and Tourism (GREAT) programme hosted a symposium, Engaging Women in Markets – Scaling up Local Successes Nationwide, in Hà Nội on Friday (May 27).

GREAT headways to empower local ethnic women 08:00 | 23/04/2021 Solving women’s economic empowerment is not only about increasing their incomes, but also about helping them improve their decision-making power in the family, community, and society. Phil Harman, the leader of the GREAT programme on empowering women through economic and tourism development, discusses the issue with VIR’s Thai An. After more than four years of implementing projects to suppo...

The real value of equality 10:00 | 23/04/2021 Ethnic women in Dao, Tay, and Xa Pho villages are challenging stereotypes by taking their economic empowerment into their own hands. With crucial help through education and local women’s unions, the women are turning their families’ lives around for the better and are improving views on women in their communities. Having married at 17, Luong Thi Dan’s (33) life has been revolving around her two children...