The visit to Vietnam by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this week should be an opportunity to renew and expand the U.S. government’s response to address the AO/dioxin issue, an American official said last week. Addressing a press briefing in...
A new report on “Core Elements of National Reports” has been released by the Climate Change Expert Group. Enhancing the framework for measurable, reportable and verifiable (MRV) mitigation actions, commitments and support in a post-2012 climate...
Climate change will make great impacts on Vietnam’s water resources, especially the country’s two major rivers of Red River and Mekong River, said the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE). According to the Ministry’s Institute for...
The Vietnamese government has required its ministry of police to promote the signing of international conventions on extradition of environmental criminals, the government said on its website July 13. The move is aimed to tighten control over...
Experts from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment along with other relevant agencies have attended an online conference entitled “Vietnam dealing with climate change”. The conference was jointly held on July 14 by VOVNews online, Thanh...
The Japanese government has pledged to provide VND3.28 trillion ($171.82 million) in loan for a VND4.53 trillion environmental project in Vietnam’s northern city of Haiphong, the Dau tu newspaper reported July 14. Of the project’s total capital,...
This year’s first typhoon, whose international name is Conson, is likely to hit Vietnam’s northern coastal provinces from Quang Ninh to Haiphong on July 16-17, the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasts warned. The storm is forecast to...
Sappers in Vietnam’s northern province of Bac Kan July 14 moved a 600-kg bomb to a secure location. They will detonate it later. The bomb was discovered by workers building an embankment along the Cau River in Bac Kan Town. According to sappers, the...
The U.S. House of Representatives will hold a hearing in Washington D.C. July 15 to examine the needs of Vietnamese victims exposed to the toxic chemical sprayed by American troops during the war in Vietnam. The hearing, the third of its kind, will...
