Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked 61 cities and provinces nationwide to raise the use of Methadone in drug addition treatment in 2014-2015 to reduce bad impacts on the society. The localities are asked to provide Methadone treatment...
The northern province of Bac Ninh will require its polluting guild villages to adopt adequate waste treatment methods and facilities or move the trade to industrial zones. Polluting enterprises will not only be subject to administrative punishments...
More than 200 households are continuing to struggle with water shortages in a Ghenh Rang Ward fishing village in central coastal Binh Dinh Province. The shortage has extended into a second month and began when three local wells ran out of water,...
The southernmost province of Ca Mau has set to fortify its coastal protective forests against probable erosions and landslides triggered by climate change. According to Director of the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Le...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Construction has submitted for the government’s approval a project supporting poor people who are vulnerable to flood in northern and central coast areas. The project costs a combined of VND2.4 trillion ($115 million) will...
The city's Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs has just sent its document to related agencies directing tuition fee exemption to students from families in poverty line and close to poverty line in the academic year 2014-2015. Students...
Minister of Education and Training Pham Vu Luan has met with representatives from 11 Flemish universities, who expressed their wish to further tertiary education cooperation with Vietnam. The meeting took place on the sidelines of the second Global...
Vietnam and Canada have signed a letter of intent (LOI) aimed at strengthening mutual understanding and expanding educational cooperation. The signatories to the agreement were Denise Amyot, President and CEO of Colleges and Institutes Canada (CIC)...
Representatives from regional countries have gathered at the Asian Defense Ministers Meeting Plus (ADMM+) Experts’ Working Group on Humanitarian Mine Action (EWG on HMA) in Hanoi on June 18 to discuss ways for clearance of unexploded ordnance (UXO)....
The urban poor are often the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change in Vietnam, and housing insecurity for the urban poor is a key dimension of poverty.The London-based International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), which...
