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Communities placed at centre of sustainable tourism development

Community-based tourism brings economic benefits to local communities, contributing to the effective preservation and promotion of natural and cultural resources of each region, in line with the trend of sustainable development. Community-based tourism is to be promoted in the Vietnam Tourism Development Strategy to 2030 in ...

Work accelerated to built master plan for Mekong Delta’s sustainable development

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE), together with relevant ministries and agencies, is accelerating the building of a master plan for the Mekong Delta’s sustainable development in adaption to climate change to 2030 with a vision to 2050.The master plan will serve as ...

Vietnam to filter out FDI projects with national benefit

Vietnam will get selective with new FDI projects, rejecting those that don’t benefit the country, a senior official says. Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung said even though FDI projects have made remarkable contributions to the Vietnamese economy, there were several drawbacks to ...

Nguyễn Hoài

Vietnam makes progress in human development, poverty reduction

Vietnam can be proud to have helped 6 million people escape poverty from 2012 to 2016 under national multidimensional poverty standards, according to Country Director of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Vietnam Caitlin Wiesen. Keep reading ...

New Hanoi Reporter

4 percent of Vietnamese have hepatitis C: workshop

About 4 percent of Vietnam’s population get infected with hepatitis C but they are not aware of the infection, thus increasing the risk of the virus spread among the community, heard a workshop in Ho Chi Minh City on February 1. Keep reading ...

VNA Reporter

Ministry expects all HIV patients covered by health insurance

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has been advised to amend some regulations so as to have 100 percent of people living with HIV covered by health insurance by 2020.Keep reading ...

VNA Reporter

UN Women: Publishing report on “Figures on Ethnic Minority Women and Men in Viet Nam 2015-2019" and "Policy Brief: Gender issues of ethnic minority groups in Viet Nam"

This report is launched by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), with financial support from the Embassy of Ireland in Viet Nam, and in coordination with the Institute of Labour Science and Social Affairs under the Ministry ...

UN Women

Workshop promotes private-sector engagement in Việt Nam's HIV response

Representatives from the health ministry, international NGOs, donors, private-sectors companies and social enterprises discussed the private sector’s role in financing efforts against HIV in Việt Nam at a workshop on Friday (30/8) in Hà Nội.At the event, participants heard that the significant reduction in external donor funding ...

Thanh Hai

Panel discussion on journey to Global Entrepreneurship Summit

This year’s Global Entrepreneurship Summit (#GES) is taking place on November 28-30 with a theme of “Women First – Prosperity for All”. White House adviser Ivanka Trump will lead the U.S. delegation. The U.S. Mission in Vietnam supports 13 entrepreneurs and eco system builders to ...

U.S. Mission in Vietnam

New topic page on COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam

Open Development Vietnam (ODV) has recently published a topic page titled “Coping with the COVID-19 Pandemic in Vietnam” to inform an overview of measures taken by the Vietnamese government to combat COVID-19, as well as the economic, social and environmental impacts of the pandemic.The topic ...

Vietnam frets as birthrates go low in some localities

The average Vietnamese woman now bears 2.09 children, a figure sustained since 2006. In 1992, the figure was 3.74, Vice Minister of Health Nguyen Viet Tien said at a meeting on Thursday to commemorate the World Population Day. Vietnam’s annual population growth on average from ...

Le Nga

National Data Strategy towards 2030 approved

Vietnam aims to handle all administrative procedure applications online by 2030, according to the freshly approved National Data Strategy.The strategy sets the target of having 100% of national data centres, regional data centres and national centres for large data storage and high performance computing across ...

Suffering downstream of polluting coal plants

The heavy toll taken by coal-fired power plants has prompted many pro-environmental international organisations to oppose banks in several nations that plan to provide loans for these plants in Vietnam, which mandatorily still considers coal a big power generator for the energy-thirsty country.Keep reading ...

Khoi Nguyen

Climate change affects farmers in northeast

Climate change is damaging production and livestock in the country’s northeast provinces, raising the risks that the poverty rate there could increase in the next few years, according to a new study by scientists of the Việt Nam Academy of Social Sciences.Keep reading ...

VNS Reporter

Experts seek alternatives to burning straw

Việt Nam is wasting millions of tonnes of straw every year, which can instead be used to make useful fertilisers and protect the environment.Keep reading ...

VNS Reporter

The roles of stakeholders in outlining hydro-power master plan in the Mekong River basin

Environmental experts gathered at a conference held in Hanoi on September 11, discussing the important roles of stakeholders in outlining hydropower master plan and protecting water resources in the Mekong River basin.The event was organised by the Centre for Sustainable Development of Water Resources And ...

Ly Thanh Huong

Social entrepreneurship takes root though Vietnam still not affluent

Despite a pervading sense of materialism typical of a developing economy, social entrepreneurs are finding fertile ground in Vietnam.Indeed, according to a 2019 survey commissioned by the British Council, the seeds of social enterprise were sown here in three phases: before 1986 by collectively owned ...

Linh Do

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 ...

Gov’t issues action plan to implement National Energy Development Strategy

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc has issued an action plan to realize the Party Central Committee’s Resolution No. 55-NQ/TW dated on February 11, 2020 on the orientation of the National Energy Development Strategy to 2030 with a vision towards 2045.Under the action plan, the Government will ...

Kim Anh

World Economic Forum on ASEAN 2018 in Ha Noi, Viet Nam

The World Economic Forum on ASEAN 2018 (WEF ASEAN 2018) with theme “ASEAN 4.0: Entrepreneurship and the Fourth Industrial Revolution” will take place in Hanoi, Vietnam from September 11 to 13.The event is expected to feature 55 discussion sessions on issues of interest to the governments, businesses ...

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