Environmental pollution and climate change are worrying Vietnam, requiring new feasible solutions and growth model transfers to turn challenges into opportunities for sustainable development. Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment...
Paula Caballero, a senior director at the Environment and Natural Resources Global Practice, World Bank, recently visited Hanoi to understand the current situation and challenges of the environment and climate change in Vietnam. Caballero met with...
Vietnam suffered from a shortage of clean water, polluted air and untreated garbage and waste. Associate professor Nguyen Huy Nga from the National Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health said this at a conference on environmental health...
Vietnamese are divided on the existence of schools for the gifted and classes of selected students. Some believe schools for the gifted are not good for students, while others think the schools should be part of the educational system. Giao Duc...
The Ministry of Education and Training has sent its document to the departments in cities and provinces and universities and colleges asking to effectively implement “Thanh nien tinh nguyen” (Youth Volunteer) movement 2015 launched by the Ho Chi...
A documentary “Lighter than Orange-Legacy of Dioxin in Vietnam” will be showed at Hanoi Cinematheque at 19:30 local time on June 18. This documentary reveals a political failure through individual biographies. It depicts the fates of a few of the 4...
Over the past years, Vietnam has implemented policies to boost socio-economic development among ethnic minorities. However, the poverty rate remains high among the groups. To reduce the poverty rate and improve the spiritual and material lives of...
The program on boosting socio-economic development in extremely disadvantaged ethnic minority-inhabited and mountainous communes (Program 135) is disbursing nearly VND47 billion to assist 29 communes in building basic infrastructure and enhancing...
German Ambassador to Vietnam Jutta Frasch has awarded 50 scholarships worth nearly EUR1 million ($1.1 million) to 50 Vietnamese students and scientists who would take part in training courses in Germany this summer, state media reported on June 8....
Vietnam’s government on June 10 announced the extension and capital increase of a project on “Policy support in healthcare coverage for poor people in Cao Bang, Bac Kan” using official development assistance (ODA) from the Luxembourg government. The...
