A team of volunteer doctors and surgeons from the Republic of Korea are continuing to conduct surgery on Vietnamese Agent Orange victims in the Mekong delta province of Long An. The operations are being performed following a two-day observation at...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources said that it would carry out a project on coping with environmental pollution in handicraft villages in the 2012-2015 period, costing about VND1.4 trillion ($67.3 million). The project...
Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City is facing increasing air pollution as smoke, dust and noise pollution levels are much beyond the permitted levels, experts warned. Recent statistics made by six environment monitoring stations in...
Vietnam’s northern province of Thai Binh will start building a waste treatment plant worth VND417 billion ($19.85 million) in efforts to cope with the rising environment pollution. Located on a site of 22 hectares in Thai Binh City’s Dong My commune...
The World Bank (WB) will continue providing loans, technical support and input analysis for Vietnam to assist the country in controlling and dealing with urban flooding, an increasingly serious development challenge for the country. The WB’s...
Vietnam has set a target to improve the environment in 100 polluted areas until 2015 as part of a national target program on managing and improving environmental pollution during the 2011-2015 period. The program will be carried out in 11 provinces...
The Vietnam Red Cross Association handed over $30,000 as relief aid to Washi storm victims in the Philippines on Feb 16. The move was made after the United Nation called on the international community, including ASEAN nations, to support the...
Vietnam and Japanese environment officials gathered at meeting in the capital city of Hanoi Feb 16 to discuss ways to clean up chemical contamination and challenges in the environment. The Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (...
Environment authorities in Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City and Osaka Water and Environment Solutions Association (OWESA) of Japan jointly held a conference on boosting solid waste management cooperation on Feb 16. This is the...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has planned to remove university entrance exams from 2020, state media reported. From now to 2015, the ministry would maintain the exams under the enrollment regulation named “three commons”....
