Taking Stock : Digital Vietnam – The Path to Tomorrow
The report titled “Taking Stock: Digital Vietnam – The Path to Tomorrow” was developed by World Bank and published on 24/08/2021.The report reviews the recent developments in the Vietnamese economy and discusses the economy’s short- to medium-term prospects, highlighting domestic and external risks associated to ...
World Bank
Code of conduct on child protection in cyberspace to be issued
The Code of Conduct on Protection of Children on Cyberspace is scheduled for issuance in the fourth quarter of 2021. This is expected to deal with harmful content on forums on social networks whose members are mostly children.The Information Security Administration said that during Covid-19, ...
Van Anh
Vietnam’s first LGBT-friendly clinic provides relief from illness and prejudice
A month ago, the Binh Dan Hospital in District 3, Saigon, has opened a new clinic on its 6th floor, catering to members of the LGBT community, making it Vietnam’s first public medical facility to do so. [] Vietnam is regarded highly in the region for ...
Le Phuong
Law revision may impede business
With Vietnam’s low labour productivity and overtime, a proposal on reducing working hours in the latest draft amendments to the Labour Code – if adopted – could become a burden for the business community. Khoi Nguyen reports.According to Article 107 of the latest draft amendments ...
EIDHR Calls for Proposals: Enhancing CSOs' Contribution to Governance and Development Process in Vietnam
The European Union (EU) is currently accepting proposals from eligible organisations for a program entitled “Enhancing CSOs’ Contribution to Governance and Development Process in Vietnam” to enable and enhance Civil Society Organizations’ engagement as an efficient actor of governance and development process in Vietnam.More information ...
Vietnam eats forests by planting large timber forests to sell carbon credits
In the story ‘We Have Eaten The Forest’ of a Montagnard village in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, ethnologist Georges Condominas tells about the ancient way of ‘eating the forest’, which is to preserve the forest culturally. Nowadays, the descendants of characters in the story ...
New decision supports people in difficult circumstances amid COVID-19
The Prime Minister has issued Decision 15/2020/QĐ-TTg regulating the implementation of policies to support people facing difficulties due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Accordingly, there are seven groups of subjects entitled to support, including employees who must postpone the performance of labour contracts or leave without pay; ...
Int’l conference: Fostering cooperation to ensure a just energy transition
International conference: Fostering cooperation to ensure a just energy transition will be held in Hanoi on 18 September 2018, focusing on:– What are the criteria for equitable energy transition from a social & political viewpoint?– How do trade unions and civil society organizations contribute to ...
GreenID
Netherlands-funded project helps promote Women’s economic empowerment
A conference to review the results of the project “Enhancing Opportunities for Women’s Enterprises” (EOWE) was jointly organised by the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) and the SNV Netherlands Development Organisation in Vietnam (SNV) in Hanoi on October 12.As part of the “Funding Leadership and Opportunities ...
Apps rolled out to fight pandemic
Those with smartphones would do well to download Bluezone, a Bluetooth-based app that helps determine if a person has come in contact with a COVID-19 patient, the Authority of Information Technology Application at the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) has suggested.If a user is ...
Vietnam sets new regulations, tightens advertising on Facebook, YouTube
From September 15, cross-border platforms such as Facebook and Google will have to remove ads in violation of regulations within 24 hours after receiving a notice from the Ministry of Communications and Information.The new decree was created ad per the proposal of MIC with an ...
Trong Dat
Why Asia's Typhoon Season Targeted Vietnam This Year
You probably heard about Hurricane Maria as it killed hundreds of people across the caribbean Sea in September and Hurricane Harvey’s flooding in the U.S. city of Houston a month earlier.But do you know about Kirogi, a tropical storm of near-typhoon proportions that made landfall ...
Ralph Jennings
The Vietnam Integrity School’s Grant calls for proposals
The Vietnam Integrity School’s (VIS) Grant supports creative ideas initiated and led by VIS graduates to promote integrity and anti-corruption in society. The grant is one part of the project “Empowering Youth in Promoting Integrity in Vietnam” implemented by Toward Transparency and funded by The ...
Toward Transparency
World Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives
Data are everywhere. But what is the data revolution doing for the 700 million people who live in extreme poverty? When data are turned into valuable information, they have the potential to improve lives, transform economies, and help end poverty. Now more than ever, the ...
World Bank
Mekong Delta agriculture adapts to climate change
The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta has restructured agriculture towards climate-change adaptation and market demand by establishing specialised farming areas for its key agricultural products, and by growing other crops on ineffective rice fields or rotating rice with other crops on the same field. To develop the ...
Politburo’s resolution boosts development in Mekong Delta
The Mekong Delta is to become a region of comprehensive development, modern and uniform infrastructure system, and dynamic economic growth under the Poliburo’s resolution on the region’s socioeconomic development to 2045.In its planning, Long An set the target to become a dynamic economic hub in ...
MONRE issues press release on hydropower dam breakdown in Laos and impact on Mekong Delta
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) has issued a press release on the collapsion of the hydroelectric XePan XeNamnoy hydroelectric dam in Laos and its impact on the Mekong Delta.According to the press release, in the coming days, water level in Cửu Long ...
Insufficient expansion funds keep Mekong Delta gateway a bottleneck
The lack of funds to widen the narrow main highway connecting HCMC with the Mekong Delta has impeded traffic for years.The section of National Highway 1 at HCMC’s western border runs from the An Lac Intersection in Binh Tan District to Long An Province. It is ...
Gia Minh
Senior citizens need training, employment support amid aging population
There will be tens of millions of elderly people with desires for entrepreneurship, vocational training, and employment opportunities in the next decade, offering both significant challenges for society and an important workforce contributing to the country’s economic growth.In 2023, Vietnam has more than 16 million ...
Full Day Online Marketing Workshop for Female Business Owners and Entrepreneurs
Female Business Owners and Entrepreneurs: do you want to expand your customer base and better target your customers? Come to learn online marketing tools. This full-day workshop will introduce various online tools to help you set up and manage a successful online marketing tool and ...
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