General News

  • Plans to evaluate mineral reserves and marine natural resources and to help residents better adapt to climate change nationwide - especially in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta region, the area predicted to suffer the most from climate change – are high...
    Monday, 22nd February, 2016
  • Vietnam’s central region and Central Highlands will see even more severe droughts and water shortage this year compared to 2015, the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting has warned. Water volume in rivers in the central region and...
    Monday, 22nd February, 2016
  • Workers at a bauxite factory in Vietnam’s Central Highlands province of Lam Dong last weekend discovered a broken pipeline that contains corrosive chemical Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH), which has been leaking and could pose serious environmental threats...
    Monday, 22nd February, 2016
  • As many as 21 animals and one plant in the southern province of Kien Giang have been classified as endangered species that need to be better protected, according to the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. The threatened...
    Monday, 22nd February, 2016
  • Vietnam’s Mekong Delta is facing the most severe drought and salinization in nearly a century, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. The serious conditions have occurred only once in the last 90 years, the ministry said at...
    Monday, 22nd February, 2016
  • Leaders of the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) and the Vietnam Education Publishing House have recently confirmed that there is no such thing as two separate textbooks for the northern and southern parts of the country, state media...
    Monday, 22nd February, 2016
  • Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has made changes to the university and college entrance exams for this year in order to improve the quality of the most important test for students nationwide, state media reported. First, there is...
    Monday, 22nd February, 2016
  • A former software engineer who worked overseas, Khoa is now an AO victim and ailing Parkinson’s patient, turning bomb shells into unique music gifts for locals and tourists in the UNESCO-recognized Hoi An Ancient Town. Pham Nhu Khoa, 56, who lives...
    Wednesday, 17th February, 2016
  • The Prime Minister has agreed to add 2,275 disadvantaged villages in 48 provinces and cities nationwide to the investment list for Program 135 in the 2016-2020 period. Of those, 2,240 will receive investment sourced from the State budget, while the...
    Wednesday, 17th February, 2016
  • The Project Management Unit 1 under the Ministry of Transport is seeking to borrow VND6.31 trillion ($280 million) from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for the Ninh Binh-Thanh Hoa Expressway. In mid-January, Prime Minister Nguyen...
    Wednesday, 17th February, 2016