Vietnam’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) set up the Advisory Council for the National Committee on Climate Change on Jan 22, bringing together leading local scientists in areas related to climate change assessment and relief...
Vietnam will spend VND11.4 trillion ($530 million) on environment protection in 2015, including 15% from the state budget and the remaining from the local authorities, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment said. The total estimated...
The National Hydro-Meteorology Centre will fortify its collaboration with foreign organizations and countries such as Japan, the Republic of Korea (RoK), Italy and the US to deploy technological potential in forecasting and monitoring hydrological...
The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has pledged to provide over $30 million in official development assistance (ODA) for Vietnam to carry out some education projects in central Vietnam. The projects include one on upgrading Vietnam-...
The Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) have provided preferential loans for 1.4 million poor and near-poor households and policy beneficiaries in the Mekong Delta region between 2011-2014. The loans enabled 230,000 of the targeted households to...
Hanoi is striving to reduce its poverty rate by 0.2% from 2014 by removing 3,500 poor households from the list this year. It also targets no commune with poor families accounting for 25% of total population. To achieve these goals, the city will...
Vietnam has successfully sent people from ethnic minority groups to work abroad, including demanding markets like Japan and South Korea. Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) Pham Thi Hai Chuyen made the statement at a conference...
Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has asked Vietnam Expressway Corp. (VEC) to take measures to accelerate site clearance of the Danang-Quang Ngai Expressway, state media reported. Mr. Hai allowed VEC itself to mobilize capital from other...
The Ministry of Health has issued a warning of the reoccurrence of measles in Vietnam, especially in the winter, as the disease is plaguing in some districts bordering with Laos and China. The warning was made though around 15 million children at...
Vinmec International Hospital in Hanoi has put an advanced radiation therapy centre into use, providing more treatment facilities to canner patients in Vietnam. Equipped with modern medical facilities, the VND100-billion ($4.75 million) centre will...
