It is necessary to research and manufacture hi-tech equipment in service of the clearance of unexploded ordnances (UXO) left by the war in Vietnam Major General Pham Quang Xuan, Commander of the Sappers and Vice Chairman of the State Steering...
Vietnam’s central highlands province of Dak Lak Nov 14 started a project to build a clean water supply system financed by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA). With the support of $4.5 million non-refundable aid from the Korean...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a EUR20-million loan by the French Development Agency (AFD) for the Support Program to Respond to Climate Change (SP-RCC) in the country. This is part of the national target program on climate...
Environmental police forces in Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City have imposed a total fine of over VND12 billion ($574,000) on 300 enterprises for polluting the environment so far this year. Most of the polluters were said to...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) and the World Bank (WB)’s Information for Development Program (InfoDev) jointly held a conference on designing a Climate Innovation Centre (CIC) in the country Nov 15. The move is...
Two Japanese companies, JFE Engineering Corporation and Nihon Suido Consultants, have been licensed to implement two environmental projects totaling $190 million in Vietnam’s central city of Danang. The information was released at a meeting between...
Authorities of Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi have urged agencies to make more efforts to protect the environment of Nhue-Day river basins. The city’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has been assigned to speed up the implementation...
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) Nov 14 jointly held a conference to improve capacity in water environment protection for the academy. The capacity of the academy’s...
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) Nov 17 co-held a seminar to seek ways to develop the national biodiversity conservation strategy and action plan by 2020. The...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a loan agreement with the Vietnamese government to develop a new model University of Science and Technology in Hanoi at a cost of $190 million. The new model university will be a state-of-the-art institute...
