Climate change will make great impacts on Vietnam’s water resources, especially the country’s two major rivers of Red River and Mekong River, said the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE). According to the Ministry’s Institute for...
The Vietnamese government has required its ministry of police to promote the signing of international conventions on extradition of environmental criminals, the government said on its website July 13. The move is aimed to tighten control over...
Experts from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment along with other relevant agencies have attended an online conference entitled “Vietnam dealing with climate change”. The conference was jointly held on July 14 by VOVNews online, Thanh...
The Japanese government has pledged to provide VND3.28 trillion ($171.82 million) in loan for a VND4.53 trillion environmental project in Vietnam’s northern city of Haiphong, the Dau tu newspaper reported July 14. Of the project’s total capital,...
This year’s first typhoon, whose international name is Conson, is likely to hit Vietnam’s northern coastal provinces from Quang Ninh to Haiphong on July 16-17, the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasts warned. The storm is forecast to...
Sappers in Vietnam’s northern province of Bac Kan July 14 moved a 600-kg bomb to a secure location. They will detonate it later. The bomb was discovered by workers building an embankment along the Cau River in Bac Kan Town. According to sappers, the...
The U.S. House of Representatives will hold a hearing in Washington D.C. July 15 to examine the needs of Vietnamese victims exposed to the toxic chemical sprayed by American troops during the war in Vietnam. The hearing, the third of its kind, will...
The German Ministry of Foreign Affairs has donated EUR374,164 through the Solidarity Service International (SODI), to a project on landmine clearance and poverty reduction in Vietnam’s central province of Thua Thien-Hue. The project will be carried...
Authorities of Vietnam’s central highlands province of Kon Tum had built 869 houses for the poor after a one-year implementation of the government Resolution No. 30a/NQ-CP. Local authorities allocated nearly 20,000 hectares of forest to locals for...
Despite its steady growth of 11.6 percent last year, the northwest mountainous region is still the most disadvantaged region with per-head incomes at just half the national average. The issue was a major topic at a working session on the regional...
