Chairman Nguyen The Thao of Hanoi People’s Committee has decided to set up a inter-sector team to inspect a project which aims to massively cut down thousands of aged trees in city’s streets, Vietnam’s state-run media reported. Along investigating...
Environmental protection fees paid to the Government by miners is supposed to be used by local authorities to offset environmental damage through revegetation and landscaping. However, the fees have often been used incorrectly, former vice chairman...
Vietnam’s central region and Central Highlands will continue to face severe droughts for many months, said the National Center for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting said. Due to El Nino and La Nina, rainfall in Vietnam’s central coastal provinces...
The Ministry of Transport has asked the Government to further extend the deadline for cutting exhaust fumes of motorbikes to the beginning of 2017. The plan envisaged having at least 20% of bikes in the country cut their exhaust fumes in the 2010-...
More than 50% of students in both cities and rural areas are involved in school violence, according to a study released this week. The research was done by Dr. Pham Minh Muc, from a research center under the Vietnam Institute of Education Sciences,...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a $4 million non-refundable aid from the government of Japan to carry out an unexploded ordnance (UXO) cleanup project in the central province of Ha Tinh. Through Japan Atomic Industrial Forum (...
Nearly 170,000 people living in Bien Hoa and Phu Cat airports, two hotspots contaminated with dioxin in Vietnam after the Vietnam War ended in 1975, have been no longer exposed to the dioxin/orange agent risks thanks to a cleanup project funded by...
Central Quang Binh province is working hard to distribute more than 1,200 tons of rice as aid from the Government intended to help poor people overcome the current between-crop food shortage. The mountainous Tuyen Hoa and Bo Trach districts will...
The Ministry of Health, Vietnam Social Insurance, and Vietnamese Women Association has given 4,000 health insurance cards to households whose economic conditions are close to the poverty line in the northern province of Thanh Hoa. Health Minister...
Vietnam still has social problems to solve though it has reaped outstanding achievements in poverty reduction in the past two decades. The country’s poverty rate went down to 6% last year from 58% in 1993, the Ministry of Planning and Investment...
