Phu Quoc, Vietnam's largest island, is grappling with major challenges from plastic waste that is seriously hurting the island's tourism reputation.
Often dubbed "pearl island" after its famous pearl products, Phu Quoc generates about 190 tons of...
Criteria for the Vietnam Eco-label, specifically targeting environmentally friendly plastic packaging have been established, aiming to encourage the responsible utilisation of natural resources and protect the environment.
Deputy Minister of Natural...
The Forest Ranger Department in Tuyen Hoa district, Vietnam’s central province of Quang Binh, handed over a ground python and a falcon to the Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park Management Board on November 23.
The python was discovered by a local man...
Senior Lieutenant General Hoang Xuan Chien, Deputy Defense Minister, asked relevant units and contractors to pro-actively overcome difficulties and speed up the progress of the dioxin clean-up at Bien Hoa Airport, Vietnam’s southern province of Dong...
Vietnam aims to reduce the poverty rate to about 0.9% by 2025, heard a national conference on November 17 to review the implementation of the National Target Program for Sustainable Poverty Reduction for 2021-2025 held in the northern mountainous...
A project to enhance the Vietnamese language for primary students of ethnic minority groups has been launched.
Room to Read, a leading nonprofit organization for children's literacy & girls' education programs at work in Vietnam, in...
Representatives of the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET), led by Deputy Minister Ngo Thi Minh, worked with a delegation of the World Bank (WB) in Hanoi late last week to discuss ways to develop the country’s preschool education, state media...
The World Bank (WB) expects to continue assisting Vietnam in energy transition projects, especially those in hydropower and pumped storage hydropower, floating solar and offshore wind power in the northern region, a representative has said.
The WB’s...
More than 8,000 children are born with thalassemia disease in Vietnam every year, including approximately 2,000 with severe conditions, Dr Nguyen Thi Thu Ha, director of the Thalassemia Centre under the Central Institute of Haematology and Blood...
Vietnam hopes to receive great support from the European Union (EU) and its member countries in terms of finance, governance capacity, and technology for the country’s development of the renewable energy industry, said Minister of Natural Resources...
