Handbook on Cybersecurity Law
SAVENET has disclosed a handbook on Cybersecurity Law.Full-text handbook ...
SAVENET
IPCC- Special Report on Climate Change and Land (SRCCL)
Land is already under growing human pressure and climate change is adding to these pressures. At the same time, keeping global warming to well below 2ºC can be achieved only by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from all sectors including land and food, the Intergovernmental Panel ...
Vietnam appoints first female head of state
Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh has taken over as Vietnam’s first female Head of State. She will be Acting President until the National Assembly officially elects a new President.Keep reading ...
Bao Ha
Minister outlines measures to improve primary health care services
Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien announced a set of measures to enhance the quality of health care services at commune-level medical stations during an event on July 16.Keep reading ...
VNA Reporter
Vietnam asks China to stop bomber drills in Hoang Sa
Vietnam requests China to immediately stop sending bombers to conduct drills in Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago, said the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang. Keep reading ...
VNA Reporter
Incentives needed for SMEs to join green growth projects
Incentives are needed to encourage small- and medium–sized enterprises (SMEs) to join green growth projects, said Hoang Thi Hong, Director of the SME Development Fund (SMEDF) under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.Keep reading ...
VNA Reporter
Ministry steps up efforts to ease patient overload in hospitals
The Ministry of Health has synchronously implemented measures to ease patient overload in hospitals over the past five years, contributing to improving the quality of health check-ups and treatment, said Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien. Keep reading ...
VNA Reporter
Drought
Mekong Delta of Vietnam has recently faced the most severe periods of drought and saline water intrusion in the last 100 years—notably in 2015–2016 and even more devastatingly in 2019–2020. Dry season droughts have become increasingly severe year over year, forcing the government to declare ...
Vietnam commits to wiping out tuberculosis by 2030
Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien has committed to wiping out tuberculosis (TB) in Vietnam by 2030 while addressing the High-Level TB Meeting, held on the sidelines of the 73rd session of the UN general Assembly in New York. Keep reading ...
VNA Reporter
Vietnam Young Initiative - InnoCity 2021: Open for Application
InnoCity 2021 – The innovation – creativity program dedicated to the young Vietnamese generation initiated from Europe, officially opens the portal to recruit candidates worldwide. In the context of “SMART CITY”, InnoCity recruits excellent innovators to build the cities of the future, joining hands in ...
Global VYSA
Vietnam condemns China for live-fire drills in Paracels
Vietnam on Thursday sent a strong condemnation against China’s conducting live-fire drills in its Paracels (Hoang Sa) Islands earlier this month. The action was a gross violation of Vietnam’s sovereignty, the ministry’s spokesperson, Le thi Thu Hang, said at a press briefing in Hanoi. Keep reading ...
Khanh Lynh
New Country Manager of Pact Vietnam
Pact Vietnam has announced that Ms. Dang Thi Thanh Binh is no longer with Pact, and its new Country Manager, Ms. Kanika Mannan has taken the role as of December 1, 2017.Her email for your contact is kmannan@pactworld.org.For more information, please visit here ...
NGO Resource Center
The food and culture of Ethnic minorities in Vietnam
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 ...
Vietnam to work with Japan in marine plastic waste reduction
Vietnam will cooperate with Japan in reducing marine plastic waste, according to head of the Vietnam Administration of Seas and Islands (VASI) Ta Dinh Thi. [] According to Japan’s estimate, Vietnam ranks fourth worldwide in the amount of plastic waste dumped into the sea, with about ...
VNA Reporter
Medical prices to increase slightly from August 20
The prices of about 1,900 different services offered at public hospitals have increased from Tuesday (August 20), according to the Ministry of Health.The current healthcare prices were calculated on the basis of the basic salary of VNĐ1.390 million (US$60). Once the basic salary has been ...
EIDHR Calls for Proposals: Enhancing CSOs' Contribution to Governance and Development Process in Vietnam
The European Union (EU) is currently accepting proposals from eligible organisations for a program entitled “Enhancing CSOs’ Contribution to governance and Development Process in Vietnam” to enable and enhance Civil Society Organizations’ engagement as an efficient actor of governance and development process in Vietnam.More information ...
Scientist creates climate change-ready rice
Dr Tran Thi Cuc Hoa and her colleagues have researched and developed two rice varieties that have been widely planted by Vietnamese farmers. The varieties have high resistance to insects, rice blast diseases, rice grassy stunt virus and rice black streaked dwarf virus as well as ...
Ha Nguyen
Việt Nam and Laos team up to protect water and environment in Mã and Neun-Cả rivers
The environment ministries of Việt Nam and Laos on Tuesday (12/3) held a workshop to launch a bilateral project on water and environment security in the Mã and Neun-Cả rivers.Its overall goal is to enable Việt Nam and Lao PDR to address freshwater resource management ...
Initiative Contest for Preventing Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls
The Center for Studies and Applied Sciences in Gender – Family – Women and Adolescents (CSAGA) has launched an Initiative Contest for PreventinG Sexual Violence AGainst Women and Girls.Proposals must be sent to ytuonGtruyenthonG2018@csaGa.orG.vn no later than October 19, 2018.Please click here to download proposal template. More ...
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