Vietnam authorities have advanced VND3 trillion (around $134 million) out of $500 million in the compensation Formosa paid for its pollution in central region to four provinces affected by the event, state media reported citing representative of the...
A court in Vietnam’s central province of Ha Tinh has rejected 506 petitions which local people filed to ask Taiwan-invested Formosa Hung Nghiep Ha Tinh Steel Corp to compensate for damages they have been suffering, state media reported, citing a...
Vietnam’s energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions rise by an average 10% annually due to rising demand for energy which grows between 12% and 15% yearly, according to the Economist Corporate Network (ECN), the Economist Group’s advisory...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Delegation of the European Union (EU) to Vietnam on Oct 11 held a seminar on green growth policy, state media reported. The high-level event, entitled "Vietnam Green Growth Strategy: Pathways...
The Vietnamese government has asked the Ministry of Education and Training and the Ministry of Finance to formulate a report on offering free tuition for students in secondary level, state media reported. This is one of the contents specified in the...
Local people in Da Lat city of Vietnam’s Central Highlands province of Lam Dong have found a bomb about one meter hidden on the ground when they dug foundations for building a house. Local armed forces have zoned the area and evacuated residents to...
Vietnam on Oct 6 called for international support in solving unexploded ordnance (UXO) at the Experts’ Working Group on Humanitarian Mine Action of the ASEAN Defense Ministers’ Meeting Plus (ADMM+) (The 4th ADMM+ EWG HMA) to take place on Oct 19-22...
International volunteers from Habitat for Humanity have joined the “Vietnam Big Build 2016” project to build houses for 20 poor families in Tam Nong district, northern Phu Tho province. The project drew the participation of more than 200 volunteers...
The Red Cross Society in Ho Chi Minh City and Korean Dail Social Welfare Foundation yesterday opened charitable kitchen to provide free meals for low-income households in Tan Hung Ward, District 7. The 115 square meter kitchen will cook 100 lunches...
Five disadvantaged provinces with great number of ethnic people on October 7 got library trucks from the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism handed under the “Multimedia Mobile Library” project. In his speech, Minister of Culture, Sport and...
