Despite an improvement in the online disclosure of district-level land use plans and provincial-level land pricing frameworks, the difference between the reviews in 2021 and 2022 was not significant, according to recent research findings. The findings were shared at a thematic discussion jointly organised by ...

The Vietnam Network for Child Online Protection (VN-COP) recently debuted its website, aiming to popularise child Online protection skills and knowledge and receive child abuse reports. The website, vn-cop.vn, was launched by the Authority of Information Security under the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC).Apart from ...

Việt Nam has for the first time launched a national programme to protect children online in an attempt to make the internet a healthy and safe place for children to learn, socialise and express themselves. Specifically, the programme focuses on supplying children with age-appropriate knowledge ...

The Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) will actively advise and perform activities to help women with disabilities in many forms and act as a bridge to connect businesses, social organisations and the whole community to join hands to promote equity and rights for people with disabilities, ...

With only two and a half weeks to go before the new school year begins on September 5, the COVID-19 situation remains complex, said Nguyen Xuan Thanh, Director of the Secondary Education Department at the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET), adding that the ministry has prepared ...

One in three young people said they have been a victim of online bullying, with one in five reporting having skipped school due to cyber-bullying and violence, in a new poll released today by UNICEF and the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) on ...

At the Academy of Finance, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Biodiversity Conservation Agency, Vietnam Environment Administration, and Viet Nam Student Magazine announced the winners of the “Online Speaking Competition on the Sustainable Development Goals on Biodiversity and Financial Mechanisms on Biodiversity in Viet Nam.” ...

Indicative of a year when Việt Nam was hit hardest by the pandemic, the 2021 Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI) Report detected a spike in concern regarding health.PAPI 2021 held a record number of one-on-one interviews with 15,833 respondents from across 63 ...

The Ministry of Education and Training has announced a draft circular providing three e-learning methods for the new academic year this August due to COVID-19 pandemic concerns.Under the new circular, three online studying forms will be implemented. In the first form, online learning will be ...

The retirement age in Việt Nam, currently 60 for men and 55 for women, may be gradually raised to 62 and 60, respectively, beginning in January 2021, the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) proposed.Keep reading  ...

The Mekong River Commission (MRC) Secretariat and Facebook on August 31 launched a collaboration initiative to provide early flood alert and drought monitoring information to riparian communities and governments in the Lower Mekong region.The collaboration, the first of its kind, aims to raise awareness among ...

Vietnam will have a digital government in place by 2025 with services provided around the clock, the Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung has promised. The entire administrative system would migrate online by “using data and digital technologies to redesign government operations,” he ...

The PM chaired a teleconference in Hà Nội on Wednesday between the National Committee on e-Government and the steering boards for e-Government and e-administration building of ministries, sectors and localities.He asked ministries, sectors and localities to build a strategy on e-Government for 2021-25 with a ...

Protecting and caring for health of nearly 23 million Vietnamese children and students is the responsibility of not only their families but also the community, the society and the entire political system, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said on February 10.The PM made the statement ...

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment hosted an online conference on March 4 discussing the building of a national marine space plan and a master plan on the exploitation and sustainable use of coastal resources in 2021-2030 and vision to 2045.According to General Director ...

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a teleconference with representatives of the 63 cities and provinces on April 20 to launch the National Master Plan for 2021-2030 with a vision to 2050, contributing to building a strong and prosperous country, and well-being of the people.At ...

The retirement age for male and female workers will increase from 60 and 55 at present to 62 and 60 respectively in 2035 under the revised Labour Code that was passed by National Assembly deputies on November 20.The document, which sailed through the legislature with ...

Twenty-two people with visual impairments are attending a digital business training and coaching course for four months in Hà Nội to help them adapt to the fourth industrial revolution and co-exist with COVID-19. The trainees are mostly selling products online or working to become sale ...

The online learning platform congdanso.edu.vn has attracted more than 15,100 people since its launch, and nearly 3,000 students and workers in industrial zones are guided in learning on the platform.They are parts of the results of the project “Supporting the Government of Việt Nam in ...

Children need to be protected from child labour more than ever due to the devastating impacts of the COVID-19 crisis, experts said during a virtual interactive panel discussion held in Hanoi last week. The COVID-19 pandemic left negative impacts on national socio-economic development and families’ lives ...