Vietnam needs to do more for reducing natural disasters, according to experts at a conference held in Hanoi on June 2. The conference, which was organized to introduce Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and Global Assessment Report on...
All regions in Vietnam are likely to experience higher temperatures and less rain falls between June and August this year compared to the yearly average level, according to the National Centre for Hydrometeorological Forecasting (NCHMF). The average...
Campaigns to mark World Environment Day, which falls on June 5 every year, are being held in the central Quang Tri and Thua Thien - Hue provinces. The campaigns raised awareness about responsible consumption and conservation of clean water. The...
Vietnam has prepared measures to tighten management of water resources in an effort to join hands with the international community to cope with worse developments of the climate change, Deputy Prime Minister-Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh said at...
The Hanoi National University (HNU), one of leading universities in Vietnam, has applied a new university entrance exam on computers amid public concerns over the subjective and fairness, state media reported on June 2. The first round of the...
The Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF), an initiative by the U.S. to promote closer relationship between the two countries, has granted 26 researchers and four scholars to attend 24 universities in the U.S. for the 2015-2016 academic year, the Thanh...
More than 5,200 victims of Agent Orange/dioxin (AO) in Ho Chi Minh City have benefited from program run by the municipal Association for AO victims over the last decade, Major General Tran Ngoc Tho, Chairman of the association, announced at the...
The Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (VAVA) and the Vietnam Veterans’ Association (VAA) reviewed the results of their collaboration and discussed future work during a workshop held on May 26. According to VAVA Chairman Nguyen...
The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) in Vietnam on May 27th worked with the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai People’s Committee to launch the 12- member consultancy and management office of the Happiness Program. Accordingly,...
A meeting on May 15 heard that a total of 19,908 families containing more than 89,000 ethnic people involved in nomadic slash and burn farming had been resettled in the past seven years, just 67% of the original target. It was told that at the end...
