The Vietnamese ministries will seek for around $3.5 billion-$5 billion funds more from foreign sponsors to deal with climate change in the 13 Mekong Delta provinces in the 2011-2015 period, said Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Pham...
Vietnam is estimated to lose VND11.8 billion ($621,000) due to natural disasters in April, the General Statistics Office said. In the month the calamities destroyed 800 hectares of rice and other crops and 1,500 houses, the office noted, adding that...
Nearly 200 officials from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam are taking part in a regional conference in Ho Chi Minh City from April 26-27 to seek measures to protect environment and adapt to climate change in the Mekong River valley....
Master Nguyen Hong Ngan an official of the World Bank’s communication and public relations division told the online newspaper VietNamNet that innovation potentials of the Vietnamese people are great and practical. Once you see problems the community...
Prolonged drought has caused an estimated loss of VND29 billion to the central highlands province of Dak Lak, the Nong Nghiep Viet Nam newspaper reported. The provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development said that drought has affected...
Truong Thinh Mineral JSC and Ho Chi Minh City Sao Bien Environment Co., Ltd are seeking approval from local authorities of the Khanh Hoa province in central Vietnam to build a domestic waste treatment complex in Nha Trang city. If approved,...
Quang Ngai Infrastructure Development and Investment Company began to build a wastewater treatment system costing VND42 billion ($2.2 million) yesterday [April 8] at the Quang Phu industry park in the central province of Quang Ngai. The system with...
Authorities in the northern province of Quang Ninh on April 22 gave a nod to Vietnam TDX Joint Stock Company to build a waste-to-power plant. The plant will occupy between four hectares and six hectares of land in Quang Hanh ward of Cam Pha Township...
The South Korean government will fund $4.5 million for a project to build a clean water supply system in Vietnam’s central highlands province of Dak Lak from now up to 2013. The project, funded through the Korean International Cooperation Agency (...
Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi will spend over VND16 billion ($842,100) on four improvement projects of food safety and hygiene this year, the An Ninh Thu Do newspaper reported. The projects are aimed to raise the public awareness of food safety,...
