Simco Song Da Joint Stock Company (SDA), an affiliate of Song Da Corporation, and Canadian partners plan to build a five-star international cancer treatment hospital in Vietnam. This is part of plans that the Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX)-listed firm...
The Vietnamese prime minister has approved adding a waste treatment plant valued at VND101 billion ($5.46 million) in the central province of Ha Tinh to the list of projects to be funded by the government of Belgium. Located in Ha Tinh City, the...
Lemna International, the U.S. infrastructure development group, has received a license from Vietnam’s central province of Thua Thien-Hue to build a waste treatment and recycling complex in Huong Tra district. The provincial authorities have assigned...
The UN Environment Program had supported the Vietnamese Natural Resources and Environment Strategy and Policy Institute to complete a report to assess climate change in Vietnam. Based on the historical data, the national report was the first by...
ELIV International Volunteer Organization has joined hands with InnovGreen in Vietnam to hold voluntary activities to help boost environment protection in northern Vietnam. The agencies instructed people in Quang Ninh province’s Tien Yen district to...
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has launched a new “Green Restaurant” Campaign in the northern province of Nam Dinh, which aims to persuade at least 150 restaurants not to serve wildlife foods. This campaign comes to Nam Dinh after the success of the...
Nokia Vietnam, a unit of the world’s biggest mobile phone maker of Nokia, donated $15,000 for Ho Chi Minh City Urban Environment Company to install 290 public dustbins in the city Feb. 9. Nokia Vietnam has gotten the money from a program entitled...
Fire has burned hundreds of hectares of forest in Vietnam’s northern province of Lao Cai on Feb 8, the Quan doi nhan dan newspaper reported Feb. 11. In Sapa district, which is famous for Vietnamese and foreign tourists, the fire is caused by dry...
Vietnam will increase spending for environment protection activities to VND6 trillion ($324.69 million) in 2010, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Pham Khoi Nguyen told state media. Nguyen said that the ministry will send teams of...
Apollo Education and Training Center has granted 450 scholarships worth $61,240 to excellent Vietnamese students, the Ministry of Industry and Trade said on its website on Feb. 8. The granting ceremonies were held in Ho Chi Minh City on Feb. 4, in...
