Farmers and retailers are encouraged to adopt the Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) guidelines in efforts to promote organic farming and consumption of safe farm produce in Vietnam, a seminar in Hanoi Nov 10 heard. The seminar on the development...
The Norwegian government has decided to fund $9.3 million to build a wastewater treatment and drainage system in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Tri, the Tien Phong newspaper reported Thursday. The local authorities and Norwegian officials met...
An international conference on reduced emissions from deforestation degradation (REDD) opened in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi on Nov. 11. Taking part in the event were Vietnamese officials and representatives from nine developing countries the UN...
The Australian government is investing in a EUR1 million project to study the impact and produce responses to climate change in Vietnam. Allaster Cox, the Australian Ambassador to Vietnam, made the announcement at the first Mekong Delta...
Ho Chi Minh City will be one of the 11 major cities in south Asia and Southeast Asia to be hardest hit by climate change, said a World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) report. The report was presented at the first Mekong Delta Climate Change Forum...
Vinh Long Education Development and Investment Joint Stock Company will build a school worth VND256 billion ($14.3 million) in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long. Located in Long Phuoc commune, Long Ho district, the school will offer...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training sent 900 post-graduate students abroad for further training under the agreements signed with foreign nations in the first ten months of this year. Of the figure, 330 officials attended doctorate training...
ACE Life Vietnam and British University Vietnam granted 463 scholarships worth ($161,555) to Vietnamese excellent poor students on Nov 11. The move aimed to help local students to cover daily increasing expenses and continue their higher education,...
Twelve Vietnamese students are participating in the Japan-ASEAN Student Conference in the northeastern Japanese prefecture of Miyagi from Nov. 14-17. The ASEAN and Japanese students will hold talks and then submit to their governments...
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in Vietnam presented the ‘Green Office’ certificates to the British Embassy in Hanoi, the British Consulate General and the Department for International Development Vietnam (DFID Vietnam) on Nov. 2. The three British...
