The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has nominated Can Gio Biosphere Reserve on its outskirts as a Ramsar site, a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention.It includes a mangrove area of nearly 35,000 hectares with an abundance of ecosystems and wildlife, and ...

Land reclamation, compensation and resettlement support for the construction of Long Thành International Airport in the southern province of Đồng Nai is estimated to cost nearly VNĐ23 trillion (US41.01 billion).Keep reading ...

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) has suggested the establishment of a network of Ramsar sites in Viet Nam for better conservation of the country’s important wetlands. The move is an important step for Viet Nam to materialize the Convention on Wetlands of ...

Locations of major tourism sites of Vietnam. Attributes include; site name, country, type of asset UNSECO WHS. ...

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As planned for 2019, Hanoi will deploy a series of large-scale projects, which when completed, these super projects will contribute to changing the face of the Capital.Keep reading ...

Vietnam and the World Health Organisation (WHO) are in common on treatment regimens for Covid-19 patients, however, the country has its own innovative features when applied in practice.For example, Vietnam is fighting against the epidemic based on the “four on-the-spot” viewpoint, which targets on-site prevention, ...

Construction on the nation’s largest data center got underway at the Hi-Tech Park in Ho Chi Minh City on May 4, indicating the intentions of local firms to utilize cloud-based computing technology.This start of the site’s development marks the nation’s first data center to be ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) on Friday added Cat Tien National Park in southern Vietnam to its esteemed Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas, making it the 72nd location to achieve the distinction. Cat Tien National Park, spanning more than 82,000 hectares ...

About 30 citizen representatives from the Mekong (Cửu Long) River Delta have joined a citizen journalist network to empower their roles in protecting the environment and boost natural conservation. The citizens of different ages and genders include members of women unions, youth union, forest rangers and officials from three ...

The conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystem services of wetlands (Ramsar sites) has contributed to sustainable socio-economic development, carbon storage, climate change adaptation, environmental protection, and nature and biodiversity preservation.Dr. Du Van Toan from the Institute of Environmental Science, Seas and Islands under the ...

VietnamWorks, the biggest online job site in Vietnam under Navigos Group, releases latest report titled “Employee Benefits and New-year Bonuses in Vietnam (2019)”. Nearly 500 HR professionals and 3,400 jobseekers participated in our survey for the purpose of this report. Keep reading ...

Prominent news site Tuoi Tre Online has been suspended after the Press Authority deemed it had published “untrue,” “nationally divisive” content. The announcement was made late on Monday by Luu Dinh Phuc, Director General of the Press Authority under the Ministry of Information and Communication.Keep ...

The management board of Dong Van Karst Plateau Geopark said since 2011 experts at the UNESCO Global Geoparks Network (GGN) have discussed entry fee collection and financial autonomy for the tourism site. A report showed that about 65 percent of travelers to the province would visit ...

The People’s Committee in Ha Long City, in the northern province of Quang Ninh, has announced that all kinds of fishing will be banned in Ha Long Bay’s natural reserve sites as of October 1. Only authority-approved fishing and diving activities for tourism using traditional tools ...

The U.S. Embassy in Hanoi will hold the 6th Annual Model East Asia Summit (MEAS) at the American Center on December 27, 2017.Model East Asia Summit is an extracurricular activity that allows students to discuss relevant international issues that government leaders face on a day-to-day ...

A national action plan on the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands in the 2021-2030 period has been issued, with priority given to recover important wetlands that are under degradation. The plan aims to complete the investigation, statistics and inventory of the wetland database at ...

The 3rd Annual Renewable Energy Week from 21 st Aug to 26 th Aug 2018 will focus on discussing how to remove barriers facing renewable energy, making it feasible in Vietnam. A series of events will be held by Vietnam Sustainable Energy Alliance (VSEA) and the ...

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc has recently signed Public telegraph 1042/CP-TTg which directs ministries, agencies, and localities to speed up disbursement rate of public investment capital in 2019. The document attributed shortcomings and weaknesses in management, regulation, and implementation including slow progress of capital allocation, bidder selection, ...

The National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control on Wednesday ordered tightening supervision over the pandemic in all localities nationwide, with special attention to be given to people who travelled through sites now under lockdown in central Đà Nẵng City.Localities such as Hà Nội and HCM City, ...