The Red Cross Societies of the US, France and Vietnam have reached a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on launching a project on community-based management of disaster risks in Vietnam’s north-western ethnic minority regions. Under the MoU signed in...
A report named “The Vulnerability Report: Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Sub-region”, a first of its kind regional study was launched by World Vision with the support by a leading UK research university through interview of nearly 10,000...
The Ministry of Health on Dec 17 in Hanoi officially launched two public online services on food safety and hygiene. The first service is to receive document from businesses asking for food safety approval and the second is to grant certificate to...
Vietnam’s population hit 90.49 million as of April 1, 2014, of which 50.7% is female and the rest is male, the latest population and housing census showed. The census enables Vietnam to build socio-economic development plans for the 2016-2020 period...
Vietnam Association for Conservation of Nature and Environment (VACNE) accredited a group of nine century-old Cho Chi trees in northern Ha Giang province, as Vietnamese heritage tree. The copse has stump diameters ranging from 1-2 meters and an...
The ratification of a resolution on water resources management at the 132nd Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) General Assembly is expected to boost cooperation of parliaments in the field. The resolution will create an international legal basis to...
A Memorandum of Understanding on gender-sensitive “Community based disaster risk management” project was signed between the Vietnam Red Cross (VNRC), French Red Cross (FRC) and American Red Cross (ARC) on December 18th, in Hanoi. The project aims to...
Vietnam has submitted its first Biennial Update Reports (BUR) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat at the United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP 20) held recently in Lima, Peru. As the second developing...
Belgium has pledged to provide more than EUR6.21 million of non-refundable ODA to support Vietnam in improving the quality of human resources. The project, to be carried out in four and a half years, aims to contribute to Vietnam’s sustainable...
Ministry of Education and Training held a ceremony to welcome Vietnamese student in Hanoi on Dec 18 after they returned from the 11th International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO) at Argentina. In the 11th International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO...
