Thanks to the support from the State and efforts made by local authorities, many poor households in the central region have gradually gotten out of poverty.Quang Nam province is home to more Than 140,000 ethnic minority people, accounting for 9.4% of the total population, bigger ...

Vietnam created new jobs for more than 1.63 million people last year, achieving 102.48% of its plan, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids, and Social Affairs. Of that figure, more than 1.5 million people found domestic employment opportunities and over 135,000 people found placement abroad.Keep ...

Vietnam is ethnically diverse, with 54 ethnic groups living in different regions. Of these ethnic groups, the Kinh is the most populous, making up 85.3% of the population (around 82 million people). The remaining 53 ethnic groups account for 14.6% of the population and are ...

More than 5,000 households in the central and Central Highlands regions have installed roof-top solar power systems with a total capacity of 150 MWp, generating 85.46 million kWh of electricity to the national grid.With more average daily sun hours than other regions in Vietnam, the ...

In the 2011-2015 period, Vietnam’s GDP grew by 5.91 percent, and power demand rose by 11 percent, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT). The energy intensity, or the unit of power needed to produce one unit of GDP, in Vietnam decreased in recent ...

Companies in Vietnam ranked higher than the global average in taking a strategic, consistent or radical approach to digitalising customer experience and engagement, said Singapore-based financial services group DBS.The research said that about 63% of Vietnamese companies were satisfied that digital transformation was helping them achieve overall profitability, followed ...

Slow adaptation to climate change in the Mekong Delta results in serious consequences as the meteorological agency forecast that the 2024 dry season will last until the end of May, and people in the region will suffer more losses. As of mid-March 2024, more than ...

Deforestation for rubber cultivation has been “substantially underestimated”, and is two to three times higher than generally assumed, a new study said Wednesday.Using satellite data and cloud computing, scientists said they compiled the first detailed accounting of deforestation for rubber production in Southeast Asia — ...

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 ...

One in 10 young people is unemployed and the risk of losing a job for young workers is three times higher than that of older laborers, the government has reported.The unemployment rate among young laborers (aged 15-29) was 7.6% over the first quarter of this ...

This dataset is derived from World Urban Areas and represents the major urban areas (polygons), with populations greater than 10,000 for Vietnam.  ...

In a report on enhancing enterprise competitiveness and enhancing small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) linkages, it says Vietnam’s labor costs are higher than in comparable Southeast Asian peers. It defines labor costs for each firm as the cost of all payments to all workers divided by the ...

The long-awaited Power Development Plan VIII is set to target the development of about 7GW of offshore wind power in Vietnam. However, both investors and localities are waiting for a clearer roadmap.In Vietnam’s north, there are now 22 registered projects with a total capacity of ...

Being active in more than 65 countries, REDD+ allows people who protect local forests to receive payments, usually from developed countries. REDD+ aims to make forest protection more economically attractive than deforestation. The total value of the program’s activities is estimated at 2.9 billion USD.A ...

Many information systems serving as the foundation for e-Government have been put into use recently, and ministries, sectors, and localities are pushing ahead with digital transformation to further improve service quality for the sake of people and businesses.The National Public Service Portal is one of ...

Social policy credit has lifted more than 2 million ethnic minority households out of poverty as of August 31, said Director General of the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) Duong Quyet thang at a conference in Hanoi on September 25. Soft credit is one of the 54 exclusive policies designed ...

The Vietnam Social Security has said it is “concerned” that Covid-19 has forced many people to exit the social insurance safety net.In the first 10 months of this year more than 700,000 people registered to exit the social insurance scheme and withdraw the accumulated premiums ...

Forty-one of the country’s 63 provinces have established a forest-protection and development fund to look after nearly 6 million hectares of trees, according to report of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.The policy was first introduced in Việt Nam in 2008, requiring hydro-power plants, water-supply companies and ...

Country Director of Save the Children in Vietnam, Dragana Strinic has congratulated the remarkable progress Vietnam has made for its children over the past two decades. Speaking at a meeting held in Hanoi on July 30 to launch the 2019 Global Childhood Report, she stressed that ...

The Ministry of Health yesterday organized an offline and online conference at 1,200 locations across the country to summarize and evaluate digital transformation activities in 2023 and deploy the medical sector’s 2024 action plan with the message ‘Connect – Share – Accompany’.In 2023, the National ...