EVFTA to create 146,000 more jobs for 2022-2025 period
It is forecasted that an additional 146,000 jobs will be made for 2022-2025, thanks to the EU-Viet Nam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) implementation. The above figure was shared at the Workshop to assess the impact of EVFTA on labor and employment issues, organized by the ...
Thuy Duong
Viet Nam jumps 7 places in 2022 Government AI Readiness Index
Viet Nam climbed seven places to the 55th in the 2022 Government Artificial Intelligence (AI) Readiness Index, according to an annual index report by the UK’s Oxford Insights. With an overall score of 53.96 out of 100, the nation ranked 6th in ASEAN, higher than ...
Thuy Dung
Disasters
Vietnam is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world. S-shaped with a 3,440 km coastline, its unique geographic location in the monsoon belt of Southeast Asia and diverse topography means that Vietnam suffers from many different types of natural hazards, including typhoons, tropical ...
Viet Nam receives over US$677 million from NGOs during 2020-2022
Viet Nam received aid worth more than US$677 million from foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) between 2020 and 2022. The figure was released at a meeting on works of foreign NGOs that took place in Ha Noi on August 23.According to the 2022 report, 388 foreign NGOs ...
Thuy Dung
Vietnam Water Week 2022: Opportunities for sustainable development of the water industry
Vietnam’s water sector is facing many challenges, requiring innovation in mechanisms and appropriate policies to meet the needs of daily life and economic development.In the context of rapid urbanization and water pollution, degradation and depletion, Vietnam has put together the “Vietnam Water Week 2022” to ...
Hung Vo
Infrastructure
Investment in public infrastructure has been one of the key driving forces for Vietnam’s economic development over recent decades. Infrastructure accounted for 53% of total Official Development Assistance (ODA) received between 2010-2017.1Vietnam has heavily invested in transportation, particularly roads, airports, and seaports. Vietnam’s public and ...
Humans increasingly settling in high-risk flood zones, study warns
Humans are increasingly settling in areas highly exposed to dangerous flooding, particularly in China, Vietnam and Bangladesh, a study warned Wednesday (4/10). The research, led by a World Bank economist, warns that settlement growth in flood zones has vastly outpaced growth in safe areas since ...
Vietnam faces challenges of aging society
An aging population is presenting many challenges for Vietnam as the country’s social security system is still in its early stages and its economic resources are limited, delegates said at the Aging Summit 2022 in Ho Chi Minh City on November 29. Le Thu Huyen ...
Water resources planning scheme for 2021-2030 announced
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) has announced a water resources planning scheme for the 2021-30 period with a vision to 2050, which was approved by the Prime Minister in December 2022. By 2025, the planning scheme targets increasing the rate of daily ...
Mekong Delta urged to take measures to cope with drought and salt intrusion in 2022
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has issued a directive on the implementation of solutions to cope with drought and saltwater intrusion in the Mekong Delta, which is forecast to be harsh in the coming dry season.Reports from the ministry show that the flood ...
Poverty, Economic growth, Jobs, Road quality, and Corruption top concerns of Vietnamese citizens: 2022 PAPI
Headlined by a rebound in citizens’ economic optimism that contrasts with still visible scarring from the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2022 Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI) Report, released on 12th April 2023, also provides an important temperate check on government performance two years ...
UNDP Vietnam
(Tiếng Việt) Một vài nét tổng quan về ngành công nghiệp khai khoáng của Việt Nam
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Vietnam among 20 countries with largest plastic waste discharge
Vietnam discharges about 1.8 million tons of plastic waste each year. It is one of 20 countries with the largest amount of plastic waste in the world. The current plastic waste pollution in the country is very serious, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources ...
Thai Binh
First Vietnamese conservationist receives largest environment award
The Director of Save Vietnam’s Wildlife, Nguyen Van Thai, has become the first Vietnamese wildlife conservationist and the only Asian so far to receive the 2021 Goldman Environmental Prize – the world’s most prestigious award for grassroots environmental activists.The prize honours grassroots environmental heroes from ...
Report: Review of Local Governments’ Implementation of Personal Data Protection on Online Government-Citizen Interaction Interfaces, 2022
The report “Review of Local Governments’ Implementation of Personal Data Protection on Online Government-Citizen Interaction Interfaces, 2022” was conducted by Institute for Policy Studies and Media Development (IPS) in collaboration with UNDP Vietnam from October 2021 to June 2022. This report presents findings from the review of ...
IPS & UNDP Vietnam
COVID-19 now a pandemic: WHO chief
The new coronavirus outbreak can now be described as a pandemic, the head of the World Health Organisation announced on Wednesday. He acknowledged that the World had “never before seen a pandemic sparked by a coronavirus,” but emphasized that “we have never before seen a ...
WB report outlines increase in Vietnam's human capital index 2020
Vietnam’s human capital index 2020 is higher than average for the East Asia & Pacific region and lower-middle income countries, although the stunted rate among children reached up to 25%, according to the World Bank.This information comes following the release of the World Bank’s 2020 ...
Vietnam takes lead in global End TB Strategy: WHO
Vietnam is one of the leading countries in the world in implementing the End TB Strategy of the world Health Organisation (WHO), according to Director of the WHO’s Global Tuberculosis (TB) Programme Tereza Kasaeva. She made the evaluation at a meeting with the Vietnamese delegation led ...
VNA Reporter
Administrative Boundary of Vietnam
This is a geospatial dataset of polygons describing administrative boundaries in the Greater Mekong Subregion. It has been trimmed to the area of interest by Open Development Mekong from the World Countries dataset published by DeLorne. World Countries represents the boundaries for the countries of ...