Dutch authorities including those of Rotterdam City are willing to share experiences with Ho Chi Minh City in response to climate change, the state-run Vietnam News Agency said June 14. The commitment was made at a conference held June 14 by the...
The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) has funded $8 million for a project to build a solid waste treatment center in Vietnam’s northern city of Son La, the government said on its website late June 16. Norad and Son La leaders...
Norwegian authorities said they would consider an aid of $100 million-$150 million for environment projects in Vietnam by the year-end, the government said on its website late June 16. The commitment was made during Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister...
Ho Chi Minh City’s Farmers Association will start a lawsuit against Vedan, a Taiwanese-invested monosodium glutamate maker, in July, the Nong Nghiep Viet Nam newspaper cited an official as saying June 18. The municipal authorities have agreed to...
Vietnam has taken move to set up a green growth model to ensure the environmental-friendly development and cope with climate change, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Nguyen Thai Lai said at a forum in Seoul on June 16. Addressing...
Authorities of Vietnam’s northern province of Ha Nam have provided clean water for 70% of people and rural areas so far, the Communist Party of Vietnam said on its website June 15. The province has built eight clean water supply systems and upgraded...
The Vietnamese government has spent more than VND1.2 billion ($63,500) from its budget for a program on diabetes prevention in Ho Chi Minh City this year, the Vietnam News Agency said June 17, citing the city’s nutrition center. Under the program,...
Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi will implement a food safety and hygiene project worth VND500 billion ($26.32 million) from now up to 2015, said head of the municipal department of food safety and hygiene Le Duc Tho. Of the sum, VND150 billion comes...
Dengue fever attacked 3,388 people in 40 provinces and cities in Vietnam in May, claiming nine lives, the Ministry of Health’s Preventive Health and Environment Department said. Hanoi reported 314 dengue fever patients last month, 3.5 times higher...
