Vietnam’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) is planning a thorough inspection in early August over the environmental compliance and natural resources exploitation at Nui Phao Mining Company, a subsidiary of one of the largest...
The conservation NGO Education for Nature Vietnam (ENV) has recently proposed the government prohibit all commercial breeding and trading of wild animals in Vietnam as the rampant overexploitation will drive many endangered species to the verge of...
Heavy rains triggered by typhoon Mirinae, the first to hit Vietnam this year, has caused one death, nine people injured, and damage worth VND100 billion ($4.5 million), leaving many parts in the country’s northern region in power outages. The storm...
Vietnam’s highest legislature National Assembly (NA) will continue supervising the case in which Taiwan-invested Formosa Hung Nghiep Ha Tinh Steel Corporation poisons Vietnam’s sea by untreated wastewater, state media reported, citing the NA’s...
The 27th International Biology Olympiad (IBO 2016) was officially ended in Hanoi on July 23 after a competitive week with plentiful activities. As the final result, Vietnamese delegation grabbed one gold medal, one silver medal and two bronze medals...
Campus France Vietnam, the bureau of the French Embassy in Vietnam in charge of the mobility of Vietnamese students to France, will organize a Study in France forum in cooperation with the Union of Vietnamese Students in France late this month. The...
The Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange (VAVA) has organized diverse measures to care for the lives of AO victims. According to Senior Lieutenant-General Nguyen Van Rinh, VAVA President, 4.8 million Vietnamese people were exposed to AO,...
A large amount of unexploded ordnance (UXO) remain in areas which used to be battlefields during the war against Chinese invaders in Vietnam’s northern region for a decade beginning in 1979, according to the news agency VTC. The war has gone for...
As of late June, the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) supported nearly 6.8 million poor and near-poor households and people with merits. The VBSP recently convened a regular Board of Directors meeting in Q2 under the chair of Governor of the...
Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has emphasized the need to mobilize social resources for sustainable poverty reduction and encourage people to join these efforts. Speaking at a meeting of the Central Steering Committee for Sustainable Poverty...
