Hanoi forum looks to end child labour
Over 200 children in Hanoi attended a forum responding to World Day against Child Labour 2019: Children shouldn’t work in fields, but on dreams, held on June 7. Addressing the event, Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Nguyen Thi Ha said the Vietnamese Lass='vietnam-color'>...
Initiative Contest for Preventing Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls
The Center for Studies and Applied Sciences in Gender – Family – Women and Adolescents (CSAGA) has launched an Initiative Contest for Preventing Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls.Proposals must be sent to ytuongtruyenthong2018@csaga.org.vn no later than October 19, 2018.Please click here to download proposal template. More lass='vietnam-color'>...
CSAGA
Woman takes leaf out of Mother Nature’s book to protect eroding riverbanks
A Vietnamese woman is showing how to prevent landslides and erosion along rivers by growing trees in the central province of Quang Nam. Vu Thi My Hanh has returned to the way nature showed us to create embankments held together by the roots of plants in lass='vietnam-color'>...
Dac Thanh
U.S. to suspend certain visas for Vietnamese nationals
The U.S. will temporarily cease the issuance of a number of investment and religious worker visas for Vietnamese citizens from March 23. Those who have been scheduled for an interview for SR (religious worker), I5 or R5 visas will not be allowed to reschedule after March lass='vietnam-color'>...
Song Minh
Ethnic minority culture must be preserved amid development: NA Vice Chairwoman
While the lives of people in ethnic minority and mountainous areas have improved over the years, efforts must be made to preserve their unique cultural identities, said Tong Thi Phong, vice chairman of National Assembly. It is essential to focus on training human resources for lass='vietnam-color'>...
Medicinal plants help ethnic minority people escape from poverty
Growing medicinal plants has helped tackle hunger and poverty for ethnic minority people in the central province of Quang Nam’s Tay Giang district, according to Nong Thon Ngay Nay (Countryside Today) newspaper.According to Tran Van Ta, head of the district’s agriculture and rural development department, 90 percent of lass='vietnam-color'>...
Legal framework for water supply essential in Vietnam
Tighter regulations are needed to ensure good quality water is sourced for years to come, according to Nguyen Thi Hong Khanh, from the Ministry of Construction’s Technological Infrastructure Department.The national programme to ensure water supply and prevent water loss in the 2018-25 period has been lass='vietnam-color'>...
Vietnam to introduce criteria for national green development
Vietnam is soon to introduce a new set of national criteria aimed specifically at speeding the development of green industries in line with international standards, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI). The new criteria would serve as a foundation for governmental ministries, lass='vietnam-color'>...
ODI awards Can Tho University – Vietnam for contributing datasets on Mekong environment
As part of the Mekong Environment Forum and Can Tho University workshop on Building Community Capacity, the East-West Management Institute Open Development Initiative (ODI) supported a call for data submission to engage young and innovative Vietnamese citizen scientists to develop, implement and produce data driven lass='vietnam-color'>...
Vietnamese named among world's most influential climate activists
A Vietnamese woman has made it to the global list of 100 most influential people in climate policy for her sustainable energy solutions. Nguy Thi Khanh, founder and director of Green Innovation and Development Center (GreenID), has become the first Vietnamese ever that makes it lass='vietnam-color'>...
Minh Nga
Vietnam launches building of voluntary national review on SDGs
The Ministry of Planning and Investment held a workshop on October 19 to start the building of a voluntary national review (VNR) 2023 on implementing sustainable development goals (SDGs).Through the participation in the 2023 VNR, Vietnam hopes to share its achievements in carrying out SDGs, lass='vietnam-color'>...
Sustainable development goals: no time for hesitation
Among the 17 sustainable development goals Vietnam committed to at the 2030 Agenda, only four have been fulfilled so far and two have been delayed.Pham My Hang Phuong, a representative of the expert group advising on the Voluntary National Review (VNR) report, said Vietnam has lass='vietnam-color'>...
“Community space design contest, for an exciting Ha Noi” The final round
The Final Round of “Community Space Design Contest, for an Exciting Ha Noi” will take place at 2:00PM – 5:30PM on Saturday, November 25th at Conference room C1-C2, Green One UN House, 304 Kim Ma Street, Ba Dinh District, Ha Noi with the present of Hoan lass='vietnam-color'>...
United Nations
Vietnam generates nearly 18,000 tons of plastic waste a day: seminar
Statistics that nearly 18,000 metric tons of plastic waste are generated in Vietnam on a daily basis was one of the alarming messages delivered at an event held to observe the Earth Day in Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday. On average, one Vietnamese produces around lass='vietnam-color'>...
Ngoc Dong
Vietnam actively engages in UN Human Rights Council’s 44th session
A Vietnamese delegation, led by Ambassador Le Thi Tuyet Mai – Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the UN, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and other international organisations in Geneva, Switzerland – actively engaged in events during the three-week UN Human Rights Council’s 44th regular session that lass='vietnam-color'>...
Seminar discusses developing quality workforce
The Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS) and the Asian Development Bank held a seminar in Hanoi on July 17, discussing the development of high-quality workforce for Vietnam’s sustainable development. Speaking at the event, Director of the project management board Nguyen Thi Hoai Le said Vietnam lass='vietnam-color'>...
Supply of essential goods ensured for consumers amid COVID-19
In the face of complicated developments relating to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, an array of convenience stores and supermarkets have devised plans aimed at ensuring the sufficient supply of goods to meet the general needs of consumers.Vu Thi Hau, chairwoman of the Vietnam Retailers lass='vietnam-color'>...
Construction of Vietnam's first LNG terminal to begin next month
State-run PetroVietnam Gas Corporation (PV Gas) and its partners plan to start construction of the country’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in southern Vietnam next month. The Thi Vai LNG terminal in Ba Ria – Vung Tau Province is expected to come on stream by 2022.Under lass='vietnam-color'>...
Hung Le
Vietnamese enterprises raise awareness about SDGs
Many Vietnamese enterprises lack understanding about sustainable development goals (SDGs) and are not applying them to their business, Tran Thi lan Anh, deputy general secretary of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said at the forum “Responsible Business Forum – Vietnam” held in Ho lass='vietnam-color'>...
Vietnam receives AIPA chairmanship for 2019-2020
Vietnam’s National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan received the AIPA chairmanship for 2019-2020 from Speaker of the Thai House of Representatives Chuan Leekpai at the 40th General Assembly of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) which came to an end in Bangkok on August 29.Through lass='vietnam-color'>...
