The Vietnamese government will continue boosting the implementation of the Unedited Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), and the Kyoto Protocol signed in 1997, to cope with climate change, said Minister of Agriculture and Rural...
The Vietnamese government will need around $16 billion to invest in various wastewater treatment and environmental sanitation projects next decade, an official of the Ministry of Construction said.Nguyen Hong Tien, head of the ministry’s Technical...
Many foreign nations have committed to assist Vietnam in dealing with impacts of climate change, said Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha. Ha made the statement after a Vietnamese delegation attended the 16th Conference...
Authorities in Vietnam’s southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau have approved a VND714 billion ($36.62 million) plan to curb pollution in the Dong Nai River in the 2010-2020 period. The water is being seriously polluted as it incurs a large volume of...
The Global Community Service (GCSF) and the U.S.-based Boeing Corporation have put into operation a $31,000 school in Ta Long commune in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Tri in an effort to provide better learning environment for local students....
The Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training and Embassy of Denmark on Dec 14 signed a $700,000 agreement on supporting fine arts education at Vietnam’s primary schools in the 2011-2015 period. This is the second stage of the project funded by...
Vietnam will need VND6 trillion ($307.7 million) to build student dormitories yearly in the 2011-2015 period to meet 60% of students’ accommodation demand. Between 2009 and 2010, VND8 trillion has been disbursed to provide 200,000-300,000...
More and more teachers in Vietnam’s southern metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City had given up their teaching to find higher-income careers, ringing an alarming bell with local authorities about the problem. Low salaries and bonuses as well as boring...
The World Bank (WB) and the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) Dec 16 signed an agreement in Hanoi under which the former will provide the latter $50 million for the second phase of the Higher Education Development Program (HEDP). This phase aims to...
Vietnam’s central province of Nghe An has kicked off a clean water supply project worth more than VND200 billion ($10.26 million) funded by the Finnish government. Of the sum, VND110 billion came from the Finnish government’s official development...
