“SDG Entrepreneurship for Youth” Workshop
Workshop “SDG Entrepreneurship for Youth” is a proGramme co-hosted by NEU Center for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship (NEU CSIE), United Nations Development ProGrammes and World Federation of United Nations Associations (WFUNA). The workshop is desiGned for students to provide knowledGe backGround of Sustainable business in ...
NEU CSIE
Conference seeks to reduce climate change impact on green growth, sustainable development
In the context of the increasing impacts of climate change, green growth is described as a way to both pursue economic growth goals and prevent environmental degradation and biodiversity loss towards sustainable use of natural resources and increase adaptability to climate change, Hoang Hong Hiep, ...
Green growth in Vietnam
The global pursuit of green growth has transformed into an essential agenda in a world grappling with escalating environmental degradation, climate change, and the depletion of finite resources. This concept strives to balance prosperity and ecological sustainability by decoupling economic growth from resource consumption and ...
Vietnam improves the most in global competitiveness report: WEF
Vietnam improves the most among 141 economies, up 10 places to rank 67th in terms of competitiveness, according to the latest global Competitiveness Report 2019 recently released by the World Economic Forum (WEF). According to the report, Vietnam scored 61.5 points out of the maximum 100 ...
Ngoc Mai
Mekong plan outlines path to security
The Mekong Delta is stagnating on the back of poor frameworks and infrastructural gaps – flaws that are hoped to be remedied with a new 2021-2030 masterplan, driving regional socioeconomic growth.As the region has been focusing on ensuring food security for the whole country, the ...
Sustainable sand management helps reduce climate change impact on Mekong Delta
About 40% of the Mekong Delta will disappear by 2100 due to a lack of sediment, and overexploitation of sand is to blame.The alarming data was shared by experts from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Vietnam at a recent seminar titled “Sustainable sand management ...
Vietnam speeds up digital conversion race
Vietnam has made concrete steps to seize opportunities from digital conversion, which has become the main development trend around the world thanks to great advantages in technologies and creativity.Over the past few years, Vietnamese living in big cities have gradually formed an online shopping habit. A ...
Dong Nai seeks UNESCO opinion on biosphere highway
Dong Nai Province authorities have asked the Vietnam National Commission for UNESCO to comment on a highway project cutting through a world biosphere reserve.The highway plan aims to develop infrastructure and connect localities in southeast Vietnam. However, as the road would run through a nature ...
Phuoc Tuan
ASEAN forum discusses quality culture in higher education institutions
More than 250 delegates, from over 150 higher education institutions of 15 countries in the region and around the world, discussed quality culture in higher education institutions at the ASEAN-Quality Assurance Forum 2019 which opened in Hanoi on November 7. The event, entitled “Networking for Building ...
Việt Nam has first more than US$41 million from selling forest carbon credits
A total of US$41 million in carbon credit sales is the first forest proceeds from six north central provinces from the emission reduction agreement with the World Bank. This money is transferred to localities to pay forest owners, local people and communities to manage, protect and ...
VN Reform and Development Forum 2019 slated for September 19
The Viet Nam Reform and Development Forum (VRDF) 2019 will be jointly held by the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) and the World Bank (WB) in Ha Noi on September 19 under the theme “Viet Nam: Desire for Prosperity – Priorities and Actions”.According to ...
US-backed partnership to help with higher education reform in Vietnam
The Partnership for Higher Education Reform (PHER), which involves some Vietnamese and US universities, was launched on August 1 with a view to improving the academic quality, governance, and market relevance of Vietnam’s higher education institutions.PHER is a product of an extensive consultation process among ...
Vietnam proposes audit on water resources in Mekong River basin
The State Audit of Vietnam (SAV) proposed that an audit on water resources in the Mekong River basin be conducted by the agency called “ASOSAI’s cooperative environmental audit in Southeast Asia in the 2020-2021 period”, at the 55th Executive Board meeting of the Asian Organisation ...
Vietnam to pilot carbon credit trade from 2025
A seminar on opportunities for developing a carbon market in Vietnam took place in Hanoi on April 20.Jointly hosted by giao thong (Transport) Newspaper and green Innovation and Development Centre (greenID), the event focused on roadmaps for developing the domestic carbon market, and policy recommendations ...
Panel discussion on journey to Global Entrepreneurship Summit
This year’s Global Entrepreneurship Summit (#GES) is takinG place on November 28-30 with a theme of “Women First – Prosperity for All”. White House adviser Ivanka Trump will lead the U.S. deleGation. The U.S. Mission in Vietnam supports 13 entrepreneurs and eco system builders to ...
U.S. Mission in Vietnam
Kick-off meeting on social work held
A regional kick-off meeting on Development of “ASEAN Declaration on Promotion of Social Work” took place in Hanoi on October 28.At the meeting, many delegates agreed that in Southeast Asiaregion, social work has not been recognised as a professional job by law. Many countries have ...
Why Asia's Typhoon Season Targeted Vietnam This Year
You probably heard about Hurricane Maria as it killed hundreds of people across the Caribbean Sea in September and Hurricane Harvey’s flooding in the U.S. city of Houston a month earlier.But do you know about Kirogi, a tropical storm of near-typhoon proportions that made landfall ...
Ralph Jennings
Vietnam wants to be top 15 organic farming countries
The agriculture ministry seeks to turn Vietnam into one of world’s top 15 organic farming countries by 2030, and has its sights on the EU market given trade deals.Under a draft proposal it will submit to the prime minister in the fourth quarter, the Ministry ...
Dat Nguyen
Hanoi’s forum discusses challenges and opportunities of ageing population
An inter-generational forum was held in Hanoi on September 30 on the occasion of the International Day of Older Persons (October 1), showing a positive view of an ageing population in turning challenges into opportunities and to strengthen the understanding of the dynamics of an ...
Blending welfare into pursuit of prosperity
In its efforts to become a more affluent nation by 2035, Vietnam has made significant improvements in improving its Human Capital Index.Vietnam is experiencing rapid demographic and social change. Today, 70 percent of the population is under 35 years of age, with a life expectancy ...
Thanh Thu