The Vietnamese Women Union and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDSC) co-held a groundbreaking ceremony on April 19 for a clean water system in Quy Hoa commune, northern Hoa Binh province. The project has a total investment of VND994...
Hanoi could be hit by water shortages this summer because the Da River water pipeline No.1 faced risk of re-breaking, while a second pipeline will not be finished by its scheduled deadline, according to city authorities. The total clean water supply...
Vietnam must take drastic measures to tackle drought and saline intrusion to help ensure water security and prevent the politicization of water in the region. Irrigation facilities, re-arrangement of crops as well as developing plant varieties and...
The ongoing severe drought and salinization have caused damage of VND6.4 trillion ($284.44 million) for Vietnam so far, state media reported. Along with causing serious damage for hundreds of thousands of hectares of crops in the Mekong Delta, the...
There are less than 5 tigers living in the wild in Vietnam, a drop from 30 in 2010, said Deputy Director of the Nature Education Centre Nguyen Phuong Dung. As many as 179 tigers are captive in 14 private farms across the nation, doubling from 81 in...
A national meeting to celebrate World Environment Day on June 5 is scheduled to be held in Vietnam’s northern mountainous province of Lao Cai. This was announced by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment on Apr 20. The event is expected...
Vietnam’s government will invest VND7 trillion ($311 million) in upgrading and build irrigation projects in the Mekong Delta by 2020 to help the region better deal with droughts and salinization, said Nguyen Van Tinh, deputy head of the Directorate...
The HCM City People’s Committee has just granted an investment license to a project to tackle local floods, worth VND10 trillion ($450 million). The project will be implemented by the Trung Nam Construction Investment JSC under the Build and...
The Ministry of Education and Training held a ceremony in Hanoi on April 20 to officially hand over Hanoi Science-Technology University (HSTU) to the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), state media report. The event was held in...
Almost 200 nursing students of Vietnam’s University of East Asia will participate in the apprenticeship program in Japan after the agreement was officially signed on April 20, state media reported. Accordingly, the Institute Of Education Nanakamado...
