Ensuring water for people’s daily lives should be the top priority in the face of the severe ongoing drought, said Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung at a conference in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang on Apr 28. The event, held...
Vietnam has signed The Paris Agreement which marks the participation of 175 countries, including 34 nations representing 49% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. Vietnamese Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha attended the...
This month, Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT), Vietnam’s leading posts-telecommunications company, became the first State-owned enterprise to support a nationwide campaign to protect wildlife through corporate social responsibility (...
Vietnam and the UN have called on international community to provide financial assistance to cope with the ongoing severe drought and salinization caused by El Nino and the low water flow in the Mekong River, state media has reported. Vietnam needs...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment announced on April 27 that they have found no conclusive link between the massive fish death in Vietnam’s central coastal areas and waste water discharge by Taiwan-invested Formosa steel...
An increase in the number of students in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong are posing challenges for the education sector as the demand for school facilities and teachers increases, said Nguyen Van Hoa, deputy director of the provincial...
The northern province of Quang Ninh on April 19 launched a campaign to support communes suffering extreme difficulties to rise up from poverty as part of its new-style rural area building program in 2016. At the launching ceremony, organizations and...
Nearly 200 collectives and individuals representing ethnic women who excel in economic development in the northwestern region will be honored at a conference in the central province of Nghe An in early May. The information was revealed by the...
As many as 19 publications will be given for free to ethnic minority groups and those living in extremely disadvantaged areas in 2016. The move aims to boost development in ethnic and disadvantaged areas across the nation, according to a decision...
Vietnam should issue more policies that aims to boost the transparency in power industry to draw more investment in power projects and the World Bank (WB) would support the process, Achim Fock, the WB Acting Country Director to Vietnam, said at a...
