Vietnam needs an estimated VND3 trillion ($142.2 million) to upgrade 317 water reservoirs in a move to ensure the safety of people during the flooding season, said Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat. Mr. Phat released the...
Severe floods triggered by short-lived tropical storm Podul, the 15th storm to hit Vietnam this year, have caused huge damages and cut off traffic in several areas in central Vietnam over the last three days. The storm weakened into a tropical...
Japan’s Tokyo capital city and Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi will boost the cooperation in environmental protection and water drainage in the years to come, according to Tokyo Governor Naoki Inose. Mr. Inose made the statement at a meeting with...
Asia-European Meeting countries (ASEM) should join hands to create a network of early warning centers and institutes for natural disasters, said Vietnamese Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh. The newly-appointed Deputy PM made the call at...
The unscheduled discharge of water in large quantities from hydropower plants have worsened the impacts of flooding in Central Vietnam, lawmakers said in a Q&A session of the ongoing sitting of the National Assembly (NA), the country’s...
Vietnam has lost an estimated VND25 trillion ($1.2 billion) due to natural disasters since the beginning of this year, according to data from the National Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Prevention and Control. The figure included VND20...
November 20 saw the announcement, by ANZ and the Saigon Children’s Charity (SCC), of a three year community education program called Project 3E: educate, enrich, employ. The project aims to provide quality education in the fight against poverty,...
The US’s Microsoft Corporate will provide Vietnam’s education sector with application software and training programmes in 2013-2014 to help improve IT application in teaching and management. An agreement to this effect was signed by representatives...
A project to remove unexploded ordnance (UXO) left from the war in the northern mountainous provinces of Cao Bang and Lang Son was kicked off in Lang Son province on November 12. To be implemented from now until 2015 with an investment of VND74...
Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has agreed to extend the implementing period of a Belgium-funded poverty reduction project in the central province of Nghe An to Sept 3, 2014. The project totaling EUR3.7 million, carried out from...
