Sick children from poor families are getting the surgery they need thanks to the remarkable Children of Vietnam Charitable Fund. The group has sponsored surgery for 12 children from March 30 to April 8 this year. Those children, from needy families...
Vietnam’s Engineering Institute of Technology has successfully made metal mine detectors DKL-03 in service of landmines to overcome the consequences after the war. Detectors were made of metal mines, metals and other types of bombs, bullets or other...
The U.S.-Vietnam Dialogue Group on Agent Orange/Dioxin will launch a campaign to call for financial supports to detoxicate two most dioxin-contaminated areas in Vietnam, state media reported Friday. The group which will include ten prominent...
Vietnam and Thailand will cooperate and share experience in defusing land mines and explosives left from the war, state media reported. This is a result reached between Vietnam’s Deputy Minister of Defense Sen. Lieut. Gen. Nguyen Huy Hieu and Thai...
Polluted water of Red River and upstream hydropower dams are posing great threats to health and livelihoods of local people along the river in North Vietnam. Recent tests have shown high contents of heavy metals in the river, which could surely lead...
A survey on air pollution across Vietnam has been finished under a project to develop a national framework plan on air pollution control, the Voice of Vietnam Radio said Mar 18. The project’s results were released at a recent conference held by the...
The Vietnamese government needs build a national strategy on climate change since natural disasters become more frequently and unpredictably, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Chu Pham Ngoc Hien urged. He made the call at a recent...
Vietnam will need nearly $850 million per year to cope with impacts of climate change in the 2010-2050 period, the World Bank (WB) said in its latest study. Tran Thi Thanh Phuong, senior environmental specialist of the WB in Vietnam, released the...
The Cities Development Initiative for Asia (CDIA) has pledged $400,000 for urban wastewater treatment in Vietnam’s central city of Danang, the Ha Noi Moi newspaper reported Mar 23. The project, which includes $80,000 from Danang authorities, will...
Saigon Co.op, Vietnam’s leading supermarket chain operator, said that its Co.opMart supermarkets in Ho Chi Minh City will give free-of-charge degradable bags to customers from Mar 26, instead of plastic ones in a move to protect the environment. The...
