Sustainable Development Goals
Hanoi proposes validation of online teaching
Online teaching is the initiative of the country’s education sector, not only for responding to learning in pandemic time.Le Ngoc Quang, deputy director of the municipal Department of Education and Training, stated that with a view to making online training more effective, the Ministry of ...
Anh Kiet - Bao Thang
Two scenarios for Vietnam's economic recovery
Vietnam has to be very cautious when choosing and implementing a plan to reactivate the economy. The government, in a report to the National Assembly’s Standing Committee, projected two economic growth scenarios for this year.With the first scenario, if Vietnam can contain Covid-19 in the ...
Kim Chi
Remote health examination, treatment still has long way to go
Experts discussed payments for remote health examination and treatment with health insurance during a recent conference held by the Ministry of Health in Hanoi.Experts said remote health examination and treatment was an effective measure to raise work effectiveness in grassroots levels while reducing the burden ...
Vietnam moving toward new phase with no active COVID-19 cases
Vietnam will soon enter a phase with no active novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases as over 90 percent of its patients have recovered. No death from the disease has been recorded in the country, while no cases of community transmission have been documented in the past ...
Voices of Vietnamese children survey released
Result of the survey “The Voices of Vietnamese Children” was released by the Management and Sustainable Development Institute (MSD) and the Save the Children International (SCI) in Hanoi on June 2.The survey polled nearly 1,700 Vietnamese children aged 11-16 in urban and rural areas, both ...
Delta must have 'emergency plan' on climate change
The Mekong Delta region must include an “emergency” response to climate change in its regional planning for the 2021-30 period as rising seas, coastal erosion and subsidence could occur earlier than previously thought, Deputy Prime Trịnh Đình Dũng said on Thursday (28/5) in Hà Nội. In ...
Protecting children in cyberspace requires extra effort: Confab
The Ministry of Information and Communications, in collaboration with UNICEF, organised a conference to gather ideas on a project to protect and support children in cyberspace during the 2020-2025 period, to be submitted to the Prime Minister in June for approval.Proposing measures to protect children ...
Rural residents in Mekong Delta need access to clean water
All residents in rural areas of the Mekong Delta must have access to clean water, Nguyen Hoang Hiep, deputy minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, said at a seminar held in Soc Trang province on May 27. About 96,000 households with a total of 430,000 people ...
In Vietnam, stopping biodiversity degradation a challenging task
Dr Nguyen Ngoc Lung, Director of the Institute for Sustainable Forest Management and Forest Certification, explains that biodiversity degradation can be seen in three forms – biodiversity of ecosystems; of species; and genetic biodiversity.The national strategy on biodiversity protection by 2030 mentioned five major tasks, ...
Le Ha
Legal enforcement of child abuse prevention reviewed
Chairwoman of the National Assembly (NA)’s Committee of Judicial Affairs, Le Thi Nga, presented a report on the outcomes of legal enforcement of child abuse prevention and control from January 1, 2015 to June 30, 2019 during the 14th NA’s ninth session in Hanoi on ...
