A group of 33 Vietnamese transport and logistics companies across Vietnam, especially those in big cities of Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and Haiphong have pledged to say no to wildlife trading, state media reported, citing state officials at a meeting...
Observers and activists in Vietnam believe that an amount of money which Taiwan-invested Formosa Hung Nghiep Ha Tinh Steel Corporation fined to compensate damage it causes to environment in four Vietnamese central provinces is totally trivial to...
Vietnam’s legislative body National Assembly (NA) will start its 2nd session in October, focusing on lawmaking affairs, state media has reported. The 494-member parliament will adopt four draft laws and give opinions on 14 others while the Standing...
Vietnamese students have earned two bronze medals at the 2016 World Mathematical Olympiad (WMO) held in South Korea’s Seoul last week, state media reported. A team of 12 Vietnamese primary school students whose were chosen from 700 students in the...
A ceremony was held in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum on August 8th to mark the 55th year of the Agent Orange calamity in Vietnam (August 10th). Being the first locality sprayed with the toxic chemical by the US troop during the war in...
An international conference on Agent Orange/dioxin opens in Hanoi with the participation of both domestic and foreign scientists, ambassadors, head of international organizations in Vietnam, state media reported. The event, chaired by Vietnamese...
The PM has nodded additional capital for the National Target Program on sustainable poverty reduction in 2016. Accordingly, the program will get over VND73.3 billion of budget in 2016. Ministries, agencies, and localities will get VND 59 billion to...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has okayed to allocate an estimated VND73.3 trillion ($3.3 billion) to poverty reduction programs in 2016, state media reported. The total amount will include VND59 trillion to be spent on agriculture and...
Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh on August 11 granted gifts and scholarships from the National Fund for Vietnamese Children (NFVC) to poor students who have good learning performances in the southern province of Dong Thap. At the event, 50 gifts,...
The PM has issued Decision No. 1573/Q?-TTG approving a project on building new-style rural areas in the ethnic minority and border regions in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien. The project covers a total area of nearly 338,021 hectares...
