Sustainable Development Goals

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on February 12 signed a dispatch urging the drastic and effective implementation of the socio-economic recovery and development programme as well as the acceleration of the disbursement of public investment.Accordingly, the Prime Minister requested the synchronous and effective implementation of ...

Evasion of social insurance payments for workers increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, as enterprises grappled the economic fall-out of pandemic control measures. However, as stipulated by law, avoiding payment and racking up insurance debt severely affects the social security rights of employees.The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social ...

The Mekong Delta, the largest agricultural hub of Vietnam, should be confident to surmount difficulties and become a role model in climate change adaptation in the world, said Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan.Local agriculture officials pointed out certain problems such as ...

Digital transformation is an inevitable trend of the world today. It is also a requirement of development that no country can stand without if it does not wish to be left behind. Although having recorded certain achievements, Vietnam still needs to act more aggressively and ...

The goal for the digital economy to account for 20 percent of GDP by 2025 is very challenging. However, Nguyen Trong Duong, Deputy Director of the Department of Enterprise Management under the Ministry of Information and Communications, believed that with a breakthrough scenario, the Vietnamese digital ...

With the economy gradually bouncing back, Vietnam will continue speeding up the disbursement of public investment this year, with a focus placed on infrastructure development in order to spur on economic growth this year and beyond.Hanoi is among many other localities showing strong determination in ...

Thirty-five years of renovation have transformed Vietnam from a country confronted with food shortages in the 1980s into a middle-income economy and one of the world’s 20 leading international trade powerhouses.Renovation and overtaking are an inevitable part of competition and development. Almost 100 million Vietnamese ...

Vietnam is determined to restruct its enegy sector, said Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Dang Hoang An at the 4th High-Level Meeting of the Vietnam Energy Partnership Group (VEPG) held in Hanoi on January 24.An important highlight of the function was the introduction of ...

The “2020 version of the climate change scenario” report released this week by the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry specifies that a 100 cm rise in the sea level could leave 47.29 percent of the Mekong Delta permanently flooded. Vietnam’s coastal average sea level rise ...

Việt Nam plans to set up and pilot a carbon trade exchange from 2025, according to a new Government decree on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and Ozone layer protection. The document stipulates several articles of the Law on Environmental Protection and maps out a roadmap ...