General News

  • Vietnam’s southern province of Ca Mau authorities have approved a plan to build a VND351 billion ($18.38 million) waste treatment plant in Ca Mau City in early April. Covering on a site of 25 hectares in Tan Xuyen ward, the plant will have a daily...
    Wednesday, 31st March, 2010
  • Vietnam’s central highland province of Lam Dong Mar. 22 started a $3.8 million project funded by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to protect biodiversity in Bidoup Nui Ba National Park. The four-year project is aimed to enhance the...
    Wednesday, 31st March, 2010
  • The Vietnamese government is estimated to spend VND17.678 trillion ($925.55 million) a year to implement environment-cleansing and pollution reduction projects in craft villages and industrial parks. Vietnamese authorities are imposing four fees of...
    Wednesday, 31st March, 2010
  • The German government will finance EUR7 million for the AKIZ project to build wastewater treatment facilities in industrial zones in Vietnam from now up to 2014, said participants at a kicking-off ceremony in Can Tho Mar. 24. The project will be...
    Wednesday, 31st March, 2010
  • The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) held an international seminar in Hanoi Mar. 22 to discuss measures to mitigate risks of natural disasters and climate change. Nearly 100 leading environmentalists from 25 countries took part in...
    Wednesday, 31st March, 2010
  • The World Bank will continue assisting Vietnam in adapting to climate change, Vice President for East Asia and the Pacific of the bank James Adams said at a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung in Hanoi Mar. 22. Adams praised...
    Wednesday, 31st March, 2010
  • The World Bank will continue assisting Vietnam in adapting to climate change, Vice President for East Asia and the Pacific of the bank James Adams said at a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung in Hanoi Mar. 22. Adams praised...
    Wednesday, 31st March, 2010
  • The American Telecommunication Certification Body (ATCB) said in a statement last week that a number of U.S. agencies and companies will work with Vietnamese partners to hold conferences on environment solutions in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh cities in...
    Wednesday, 31st March, 2010
  • Director of the Department of Global Ecology at the Carnegie Institution of Washington Christopher Field has publicized three scenarios on climate change in Vietnam, the Tien phong newspaper reported Mar. 26. Christopher Field released the scenarios...
    Wednesday, 31st March, 2010
  • ACE Life Vietnam started building a primary school worth VND1.2 billion ($62,827) in the central province of Phu Yen on Mar 24. Xuan Lam Primary School is designed to have two storeys with five classrooms, the Ha Noi Moi newspaper reported Thursday...
    Wednesday, 31st March, 2010