The Mekong Delta region faces a high risk of clean water shortage for both production activities and daily lives of local residents due to poor management, according to a joint research conducted by Vietnamese and German scientists. The information...
The 11th Party Central Committee of Vietnam has approved a resolution at its 7th session on adapting to climate change, managing natural resources and protecting the environment to build a green economy. By 2020, Vietnam will generally be able to...
Delegates, mainly from the Departments of Natural Resources and Environment in North Vietnam, recommended several changes to the draft revised Law on Environmental Protection, at a conference in Hanoi on June 6. The event was co-held by the General...
Several individuals, schools and businesses in the country have pledged to go with the Vu A Dinh scholarship fund for a long term to help poor and gifted students. Representatives of the sponsors and the fund signed an agreement to this effect in Ho...
The U.S.’s Humpty Dumpty Institute (HDI) and Norway’s Renew Project in Vietnam have supported victims of wartime bombs, mines and unexploded ordnances (UXOs) in the central province of Quang Tri. Through a program named “Mushrooms with a Mission,”...
Vietnam’s mountainous regions and borders are among the areas with the highest rate of HIV infection, according to a report by the Ethnic Committee of the National Assembly on drugs and prostitution in 2012. HIV/AIDS is now present in almost every...
Vietnam is striving to improve the quality of poverty reduction to make its poverty line close to the global standard by 2015 and beyond. According to the national criteria set on January 1, 2011, a person is considered poor if his or her monthly...
Educational managers, specialists and other stakeholders gathered today at a workshop in Hanoi to discuss the best ways to improve education for ethnic minority children from mountainous regions in Vietnam. The workshop organized by Save the...
The Dan Lai ethnic minority is the smallest group in Vietnam and the number is dwindling due to their harsh mountainous environment. The Dan Lai group only has around 3,000 members living in the Pu Mat National Park, Nghe An Province. They live near...
Vietnam and the International Labor Organization (ILO) kick-started on May 31 a $4-million project to improve labor relations in the 2013-2016 period. The project with funding from the U.S. government aims to help the Southeast Asian country...
