General News

  • The Nhieu Loc - Thi Nghe wastewater treatment plant project in Vietnam’s southern Ho Chi Minh City, which will be the largest in Southeast Asia, is expected to come into use in June 2025, local media reported. The construction of the $524-million...
    Monday, 1st July, 2024
  • Japan will help Vietnam’s food industry develop an environmental management certification system to reduce waste food for better environmental management and protection, under a project launched on June 26, local media reported. Ahead of the launch...
    Monday, 1st July, 2024
  • Three rare sea turtles, including two hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata) and one green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas), were released into the waters off Phan Thiet city, the south central province of Binh Thuan on June 26. A local, who had kept the...
    Monday, 1st July, 2024
  • A bomb, weighing 340 kilos, has been detected at a local resident’s house in Vietnam’s northern mountainous province of Yen Bai.According to initial information from the scene, Nguyen Van Tu of Nghia Dung village in Lang Thip commune of Van Yen...
    Monday, 24th June, 2024
  • A women-led initiative in Vietnam that collects and converts rubbish into money to aid those in need has yielded numerous beneficial effects over the last three years. On June 9, Nguyen Thuy Linh, chairwoman of the Tran Van Thoi District Women's...
    Monday, 24th June, 2024
  • Vietnam’s Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Ben Tre has effectively taken measures to reduce poverty sustainably and improve the lives of the poor. The province has provided soft loans, vocational skill training, jobs, free health insurance and...
    Monday, 24th June, 2024
  • More than $30 million were raised and nearly 1.7 million disadvantaged people were helped during Humanitarian Month 2024, according to the Vietnam Red Cross Society. During the drive which ran from May 1 to May 31, 29 provinces and cities...
    Monday, 24th June, 2024
  • The 'Turning waste into capital to support women's entrepreneurship' model has, over the past three years, attracted and supported more than 21,000 local women in Tran Van Thoi District, in Vietnam’s southern province of Ca Mau. It has not only...
    Monday, 24th June, 2024
  • Vietnamese lawmakers have emphasized the need for education in ethnic minority and mountainous areas during the National Assembly's (NA) discussion on adjusting investment policies in the national target program for socio-economic development in...
    Monday, 24th June, 2024
  • Vietnam is the second largest recipient of international aid in Southeast Asia, after Indonesia. Research from Australia’s Lowy Institute released on Monday shows that from 2015 to 2022 Southeast Asia received a total aid commitment of $380 billion...
    Monday, 24th June, 2024