The Prime Minister has adopted the national program on clean water provision in the 2016-2025 period, with an aim to ensure that 95-100% of residents have access to clean water. Under the program which will be carried out in urban areas and...
The Carnivore and Pangolin Conservation Program (CPCP), a collaboration between Save Vietnam’s Wildlife (SVW) and Cuc Phuongng National Park, released 20 endangered Sunda Pangolins to a safe and undisclosed location in Vietnam. The critically...
Vietnamese Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) Nguyen Xuan Cuong and Japanese Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ishii Keiichi inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on irrigation management in Hanoi on Aug 8...
Authorities in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Nam have proposed the government shut down a plant costing $120 million in investment for causing “severe environmental impacts”, according to state media. The local authorities submitted to the...
Vietnam’s state media cited the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) at a meeting on Aug 8 as saying that two tropical storms namely Mirinae and Nida have caused damages worth nearly VND7 trillion ($314 million). The typhoons hit the...
Freshmen to universities with financial autonomy have called on the universities to publicize tuition fees so that they and their families can manage the sum actively, state media reported. Accordingly, some universities “forget” to publicize...
Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh on August 2 presented gifts to victims of Agent Orange (AO)/Dioxin in the northern province of Ninh Binh. The beneficiaries included families of La Dinh Anh and Vu Tat Thang in Yen Mo district and Pham Luong Ngach...
Authorities in Vietnam’s central province of Khanh Hoa said that more than 10,000 people in the locality are living in areas which are contaminated with Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin left from the Vietnam War. The affected areas were used as military...
A contest with the theme “Community-based Sustainable Poverty Reduction Initiatives” was launched in Hanoi on August 2. The contest is part of the Poverty Reduction Policies and Program Project (PRPP) carried out by the Ministry of Labor, War...
One hundred impoverished ethnic minority households in the southern province of Binh Phuoc were presented with water tanks following the recent prolonged drought in this year’s dry season. The water tanks were delivered on August 3 by the Vietnam...
