The Vietnamese government started imposing environment tax on five groups of environmentally-unfriendly products from Jan 1, 2012 in a move to protect the degrading environment. The tax is applied on petroleum, coal, hydro chlorofluorocarbon liquid...
The World Bank (WB) and the Embassy of New Zealand have supported Vietnam in completing and modernizing land management system for the country, a local official said. Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Nguyen Manh Hien made the...
The Vietnamese prime minister has approved the portfolio of the project “Climate Change Cooperation” which is funded by the U.K.’s Department for International Development (DFID). The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) has been...
Dengue fever is estimated to have affected roughly 65,500 Vietnamese people this year, killing 56 people, the government’s General Statistics Office (GSO) said. The figures include eight deaths out of a total 17,800 dengue fever patients in Nov, the...
Vietnam is estimated to have disbursed VND922 billion ($43.9 million) wrth of state funds for health projects this year, surpassing 2.5% of the whole year’s set target. The figure represents an on-year slight rise of 5.2%, the government’s General...
Vietnam recorded one more hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) death case in the last week of the year 2011, bringing the total number of such cases to 166 so far this year, said the Health Ministry’s Preventive Medicine Department. The victim, a two-year...
South Korea has funded $3.5 million to help Vietnam’s central province of Thua Thien-Hue better the master planning of Hue city, one of the world’s heritage sites. Under a project costing $3.75 million, the Korean International Cooperation Agency (...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has financed $80.41 million to help 10 provinces in Vietnam surmount the consequences of natural disasters in the 2007-2011 period. The project totaling $95.01 million has been carried out in 10 northern and central...
The European Union (EU) will start a project next year to assist eight northeast provinces of Vietnam in an environment and society responsible tourism (ESRT) development. The ESRT project, worth EUR11million, is the largest tourism technical...
The central province of Quang Ngai has approved a program to reduce poverty through 2015. The program targets reducing the number of poor households by 4-5 per cent every year, and by 5-7 per cent in mountainous areas. The Vietnamese government...
