Vietnam’s National Assembly (NA) Office and Germany’s Hanns Seidel Foundation co-organized a workshop in Hanoi on April 25 to seek measures to combat air pollution. The event aims to provide German experience and recommendations for Vietnamese...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked the Government Inspectorate (GI) to verify the news that a large area of preventive forests in the central province of Phu Yen was destroyed to serve the construction of tens of resort projects....
After years of proposals, foreign investors are still quite concerned about regulations on educational investment, despite the country’s efforts to improve the business climate in the field. At last week’s workshop to seek comments for the draft...
The news that a seventh grader and her parents only knew about her pregnancy on the day she gave birth has rung the alarm bell over Vietnamese students’ lack of sex education. General school students approach sex education for the first time when...
Bomb disposal experts destroyed 130 cluster bombs and a grenade in Vietnam's central province of Quang Ngai on April 15, but said hundreds still remain hidden in the former battlefield. The bombs were found on the slopes of a mountain and were...
A mobile explosive ordnance disposal team of Peace TreesVietnam in central Quang Tri Province on Sunday cleared 22 cluster bombs left from the war in Huong Hoa District. The shrapnel bombs, which belonged to the U.S. army, were found in the garden...
Sappers in the central province of Quang Tri founded a 240-kg bomb on April 19, when working on a project to expand the Lao Bao international border gate in Huong Hoa district. Lying 6 metres under the ground, the weapon is 1.6 metres long and...
The U.S.-based multinational agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation Monsanto “has engaged in practices which have negatively impacted the right to a healthy environment, the right to food, and the right to health,” the panel of five...
Spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang of the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said at the April 20 press conference that Monsanto Company needs to take bold measures to handle consequences as it sprayed Agent Orange/dioxin in Vietnam during the Vietnam...
The Youth Union in Ho Chi Minh City yesterday honored 51 outstanding ethnic minority young people at an ethnic culture festival which celebrates the diverse culture of ethnic groups. 51 ethnic minority young people are those who studied well and...
