Carbon credits are gaining traction in the agriculture sector as an instrument to promote sustainable farming practices and improve farmer income. The World Bank would raise $40 million between 2023-2024 and $60 million between 2025-2026 to pay for the carbon credits generated by the one million ...

The 14th ASEAN Health Ministers Meeting, with the theme ‘Promoting Health of ASEAN People’, officially opened in Siem Reap, Cambodia, on August 29.The meeting focuses on four key topics, including combating counterfeit and substandard drugs; ensuring health care financing; strengthening the capacity to implement the ...

The Vietnam Innovation Network, launched Sunday (19/8) by the Prime Minister, aims to connect Vietnamese scientists across the world.“The new network will enable Vietnamese experts working in technologically advanced countries to assist their home country in preparing for the Fourth Industrial Revolution,” Prime Minister Nguyen ...

As more than 1,000 Vietnamese joined Hanoi’s Gay Pride parade Sunday to support the LGBT community, activists called on the Government to make a lonG-tabled transGender riGhts law a reality. Vietnam in 2015 chanGed its civil code to allow transGender people who have underGone surGery ...

As part of World AIDS Day recognition events, community organizations from across the country convened to share results of U=U projects funded by Hanoi Medical University with the support of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Vietnam and the United States ...

Phu Quoc, Vietnam’s biggest island, wants to be mostly plastic free by 2020 so as to promote genuine eco-tourism. The southern province of Kien giang, which is home to Phu Quoc, dubbed the “pearl island,” worked with the World Wild Fund Vietnam (WWF) on Wednesday ...

World Wide Fund for Nature in Vietnam (WWF-Vietnam) will cooperate with Communication center under Ministry of Natural resources and Environment (CNREC) to organize two-day Journalism training on Plastic topic for journalists in Hanoi (from 23-24/4) and in Ho Chi Minh City (from 2/5).This workshop is ...

Freshwater species and habitats are, on average around the world, more imperiled than their terrestrial counterparts. Yet, large-scale conservation planning efforts have rarely targeted freshwater biodiversity. This inattention is due in part to the fact that, compared to better-studied terrestrial taxa, there has been a ...

While previously many Vietnamese doctors lacked the expertise in comparison with foreign ones, nowadays Vietnamese medicine impresses the world with three branches including in vitro fertilization, cardiology, and endoscopy, with foreign doctors coming to Vietnam to learn about these procedures.Vietnamese techniques usually stand out thanks to ...

A genome sequencing center, the largest-scale project of its kind in Southeast Asia, was set up in Vietnam on October 7, according to Cao Anh Tuan, CEO of the Vietnam-based genetic engineering company genetica. The genome sequencing center will serve as a place for genetic ...

The Central Steering Committee for the Population and Housing Census published preliminary results from the 2019 census on July 11 in Hanoi.As at April 1, Vietnam’s population was more than 96.2 million people, with men accounting for 49.8 per cent and women 50.2 per cent. ...

Vietnam is capable of generating 10 gW of electricity by offshore wind farms by 2030, suggested studies carried out by the Danish Energy Agency (DEA) and the World Bank (WB).The suggestion was presented at a workshop on recommended roadmap and policy for Vietnam to tap ...

Nine million Vietnamese people are still living in extreme poverty, according to a World Bank report released on Thursday which calls for more alleviation efforts despite the success so far.Poverty rate among ethnic minorities declined by 13 percentage points between 2014 and 2015, the bank ...

New farming solutions have helped reduce greenhouse gas (gHg) emissions by nearly 17% in extensive shrimp farms and nearly 11% in intensive farms, according to a research on monitoring gHg emissions from shrimp farming ponds.The research is part of the “Energy transition and climate change ...

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment’s Vietnam Environment Administration (VEA) and the World Economic Forum (WEF) held a meeting in Hanoi on July 17 to discuss the launch of a national action programme on plastics for Vietnam. The programme is based on the three pillars ...

A research group from the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City has completed their research into a vaccine against dengue fever, which is awaiting approval from an ethics council before being put into use. The research was sponsored by Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of ...

The global pursuit of green growth has transformed into an essential agenda in a world grappling with escalating environmental degradation, climate change, and the depletion of finite resources. This concept strives to balance prosperity and ecological sustainability by decoupling economic growth from resource consumption and ...

“Vietnam’s Mekong Delta is the third-largest delta on Earth and home to nearly 18 million people, whose livelihoods rely mainly on agricultural and aquacultural production. Considered the “Rice Bowl” of Vietnam, the Delta supports more than half of the country’s total rice production and 95% ...

The Vietnam Development Report (VDR) 2019: Connecting Vietnam for growth and Shared Prosperity was co-launched by the World Bank (WB) and the Ministry of Investment and Planning in Hanoi on January 15.The report is a series of flagship analytical and policy reports by the WB ...

The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central Committee has begun receiving applications for admission to the third global Young Vietnamese Intellectual Forum 2020.this year’s forum, with the theme “Vietnam 2045” is scheduled to be held in Ho Chi Minh City from November 26 to ...