Vietnam Energy Overview
In 2020, 82.97% of Vietnam’s energy consumption came from fossil fuels. Vietnam relies primarily on coal to meet its energy needs, with coal making 51.4% of energy consumption. Because it is known that energy production and consumption from fossil fuels is the leading cause of ...
Vietnam Ethnic group Profile
Vietnam is one of the most ethnically diverse countries in the world, given its 54 recognized ethnic groups cohabiting in a relatively small landmass. Only seven of these groups—Kinh, Tay, Thai, H’mong, Muong, Nung, and Khmer—have populations over one million, while up to 12 ethnic ...
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. Vietnam has heavily invested in transportation, particularly roads, airports, and seaports. Vietnam’s public ...
Foreign Direct Investment in Vietnam
Vietnam officially opened for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) with the introduction of the Law on Foreign Investment in 1987. The attraction of FDI to Vietnam was significant by 2007 when Vietnam joined the World Trade Organisation. From that time onward, the flow of FDI to ...
Environmental Impacts of Economic and Social Development in Vietnam
Socio-economic development, on the one hand, contributes to improving living conditions for people; on the other hand, however, it creates pressures and negative impacts on the environment—such as increasing the consumption of raw materials and energy, creating waste and pollution, and reducing access to natural ...
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Vietnam Personal Data Protection Decree
The Vietnamese government recently promulgated Decree 13/2023/ND-CP on the protection of personal data , which takes effect on 1 July 2023. This Decree is the primary legislation governing personal data protection in Vietnam, applying to both domestic and overseas entities directly involved in or related ...
The 11th Vietnam Economist Annual Meeting VEAM 2019
Time: 17 – 18, June 2019Venue: Da Lat UniversityThe Vietnam Economist Annual Meeting (VEAM) is an accredited academic annual meeting organized for economists and social researchers around the world to present their scholarly studies and works.This year’s conference theme will centre around the relationship and ...
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Agricultural land market still an obstacle for enterprises
A failure to improve the agricultural land market has discouraged the private sector to invest in the sector, experts have said.The Institute for Policy and Strategy of Agricultural and Rural Development (IPSARD)’s vice chairman Hoàng Vũ Quang said the prevailing problem with the country’s agriculture sector was that farmers ...
Religions of Ethnic minorities in Vietnam
Most ethnic minorities in Vietnam currently follow polytheistic beliefs – often stated as no religion with 83.4% of the EM population, and only 16.6% follow specific religions. There are 3,025,174 people of 33 ethnic minority religious followers, distributed mainly in Buddhism with 1,448,366 followers; Catholicism ...
Online Speaking Competition on "Sustainable Development Goals on Biodiversity and Financial Mechanisms on Biodiversity” Winners Announced!
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.” ...
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Vietnam condemns China for live-fire drills in Paracels
Vietnam on Thursday sent a strong condemnation against China’s conducting live-fire drills in its Paracels (Hoang Sa) Islands earlier this month. The action was a gross violation of Vietnam’s sovereignty, the ministry’s spokesperson, Le Thi Thu Hang, said at a press briefing in Hanoi. Keep reading ...
Khanh Lynh
EU's new regulation on deforestation-linked products head-scratcher for Vietnamese producers
The EU’s ban on deforestation-linked imports are causing concern among Vietnamese producers as the requirements to trace commodities back to their origin can push up costs and entail finding alternative suppliers. The EU Deforestation-free Regulation (EUDR) will cover imports of various commodities, including cocoa, coffee, palm oil, ...
How does yuan price reduction affect garment, footwear industries?
The sudden depreciation of Chinese yuan against the US dollar brings more difficulties to Vietnam’s yarn industry, according to Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (VITAS).Vietnam imports cotton from the US to make yarn products for export to China. If the yuan continues to fall, Vietnam’s yarn ...
Experts joint drafting decree to concretise environmental protection law
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment is calling for contributions to a draft Government’s decree to concretize a number of articles in the amended Law on Environmental Protection that was approved by the National Assembly last November. The online newspaper Tài nguyên & Môi ...
Vietnam announces 70-min rapid test kit for new coronavirus
Good news has come as Vietnamese scientists have successfully created a toolkit to quickly detect the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) within just 70 minutes, instead of the three hours needed for other usual test methods.The collaboration between the School of Biotechnology and Food Technology (SBFT) ...
Vietnam ranks sixth in Global Climate Risk Index
According to the Global Climate Risk Index 2020 (CRI) report announced at the ongoing 25th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Madrid, Spain, Vietnam has worsened from 9th spot in the CRI 2019, which reviewed 1998 to 2017, to 6th in ...
Mekong Delta’s sea level rise alarming: US professor
Rising sea levels and saltwater intrusion in the Mekong Delta are becoming alarming, said Prof. David Dapice, Senior Economist, Vietnam and Myanmar Programme, Harvard Kennedy School, at a meeting with leaders of Can Tho city on October 8.Dapice said a study released by Utrecht University ...