Vietnam’s northern province of Bac Kan yesterday held a conference to review rural environmental sanitation and clean water project totaling $1 million granted by the French Red Cross Society (FRCS). FRCS Chairman Jean Francois Mattei, who was on...
Saigon Water Supply Corp. (Sawaco) started work on a project worth nearly VND6 billion ($324,700) to provide clean water for 7,000 households in Ho Chi Minh City’s Hoc Mon district on Jan. 27. Under the project, Sawaco will install 6,500 meters of a...
Mayor of Ho Chi Minh City Le Hoang Quan has asked its climate change prevention steering committee to complete its action plans to mitigate the impacts of climate change in the first half of this year. Mayor Quan also asked the Department of...
DGE Group of Denmark has received approval from authorities of Lam Dong province in central Vietnam to build a wastewater treatment system with a daily capacity of 5,700 cubic meters in Loc Son industrial park. The Denmark-invested project will help...
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has urged Southeast Asian’s Greater Mekong region, including Vietnam to act immediately and decisively to prevent the extinction of tigers. The number of wild tigers across Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and...
Challenge to Change, a British non-governmental organization, will grant $53,000 to two projects to help fishermen in Vietnam’s central city of Danang to cope with climate change, the Tien phong newspaper reported Jan. 28. The projects are aimed at...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Central Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Control yesterday co-held a seminar in Hanoi to discuss ways to deal with natural disasters. At the conference, Vietnamese experts...
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the steering committee of the Vietnam-Sweden program on strengthening environmental management and land administration (SEMLA) launched a website http//semla.monre.gov.vn, in Hanoi on January 29...
The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in Vietnam (WWF Vietnam) have joined hands to launch a campaign to raise awareness of its staff of climate change in Vietnam. The campaign, entitled Climate Camp...
The state-owned Vietnam National Coal-Mineral Industries Group (Vinacomin) has recently funded VND15 billion ($81,732) for a project to build a high school in the central highlands province of Dak Nong. The Quang Son high school, costing a total of...
