The Vietnamese government should design a clearer national action plan on green growth, a representative from the World Bank (WB) said at a recent conference in Hanoi. The WB representative made the appeal at the seminar on July 12 to kick-start a...
The first national assessment report on coastal erosion in Vietnam was released at a meeting in Hanoi July 17 with the support from the Coordinating Body on the Seas of East Asia (COBSEA), state media reported. The report is expected to provide...
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment will propose the Vietnamese National Assembly gradually increase spending on environmental protection to at least 2% of the state budget by 2015 from the current 1%, state media reported. The...
There are at this time several inadequacies in the current textbooks and education programs for basic education due to the disparity in the quality of teaching staff between one school and another. The National Assembly's Committee for Culture...
School curricula and textbooks needed to be geared more towards practical knowledge rather than theory, said experts at a recent meeting held by the National Assembly Committee for Culture, Education, Youth and Children. Professor Dao Trong Thi, the...
13 US instructors from the Humanitarian Mine Action, Pacific Command and US Army have instructed 64 Vietnamese trainees in a 12-day training course on safely dealing with UXOs and give emergency aid to people injured by post-war UXOs. Careful and...
Da Nang Border Guard Command’s troops have raised nearly VND 130 million for 20 poor households in the locality since the beginning of this year. The money was used to buy cattle and production tools, such as motorbikes, mobile canteens, sewing...
More than 2,500 poor people in the two central provinces of Quang Nam and Quang Ngai are receiving free healthcare and medicine from a charity program run by the Korean Doosan Vina Inc. and the Hospital of Chung Ang University. Accordingly, their...
Around 300 children of poor and underprivileged families in central Quang Binh province on July 10 got free milk from the “Vietnam Rising” Milk Fund in 2013. The free delivery of the donation, which is equivalent to 26,000 glasses of milk, in Quang...
Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has urged north-western provinces to accelerate work on sustainable poverty reduction and regional connectivity, and praised the remote, mountainous region's many positive achievements during the first half of...
