Sonadezi Long Thanh, a waste treatment company in Vietnam’s southern province of Dong Nai, has incurred a fine of VND405 million ($19,500) for dumping untreated wastewater into Dong Nai River.Although the polluter in the Long Thanh Industrial Park...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung Oct 12 paid a visit to flood-hit Mekong Delta provinces where have recorded 35 deaths, 60,000 inundated houses and 6,000ha of destroyed rice field. The PM accompanied by representatives of government...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security’s Environmental Crime Police Department has uncovered 11,224 violations of Environment Protection Law nationwide, collecting a total environmental fees of VND135 billion ($6.49 million) over the last five...
Denmark has pledged to provide more than DKK18 million ($3.3 million) of non-refundable aid for four environment and climate change projects in Vietnam next years. The newly-approved projects backed by the Danish government are in the first phase of...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a VND1 trillion ($48 million) project to improve living conditions for four disadvantaged ethnic groups in the northern region from now until 2020. The 10-year project is aimed to set up...
Over VND1.7 trillion ($81 million) has been pledged by 14 enterprises on the occasion of the 2011 Month for the Poor, which was launched yesterday in Ha Noi. Speaking at the event which is organized annually by the Viet Nam Fatherland Front Central...
The government of Spain has provided nearly EUR2.695 million for Vietnam to implement a capacity building project for some key agencies. The project, which was launched in Hanoi on October 11 by the Spanish Embassy in Vietnam, will help Vietnam...
The Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee (VFFCC) has launched a “Month for the Poor 2011” from October 17 to November 18. At the launch ceremony in Hanoi on October 14, Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai said poverty reduction is a major...
‘Capital Aid Fund for Employment of the Poor’, a Vietnamese non-profit microfinance organization, has provided loans of nearly VND8,000 billion to more than 1.5 million workers so far, to overcome poverty. Tran Thanh Hai, vice chairman of the...
The Taiwanese business community in Vietnam has offered VND820 million to Vietnam News Agency fund for Agent Orange victims. The amount, contributed by 230 Taiwanese businessmen who played in a charity golf tournament in Ho Chi Minh City’s Thu Duc...
