Vietnam frets as birthrates go low in some localities
The average Vietnamese woman now bears 2.09 children, a figure sustained since 2006. In 1992, the figure was 3.74, Vice Minister of Health Nguyen Viet Tien said at a meeting on Thursday to commemorate the World Population Day. Vietnam’s annual population growth on average from ...
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Vietnam likely to become super-aging country by 2050: deputy minister
Vietnam entered an “aging phase” in 2011 and remains among the most rapidly aging countries in the world and, as such, might become a super-aging country by 2050, stated Deputy Minister of Health Truong Quoc Cuong.Naomi Kitahara, head of the United Nations Population Fund in ...
Environment ministry builds digital map, responding to 1-billion tree programme
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has built a digital tree map in Vietnam to serve the identification of planting sites as well as management and taking care of trees throughout the country.The map’s database, including information about tree species, planting process and characteristics ...
Vietnam population might peak 10 years earlier than UN forecast: Lancet study
Vietnam’s population might peak at 107.25 million in 2044, a decade earlier than forecast by the U.N. last year, according to a recent study.The study, published on medical journal The Lancet on Tuesday, forecasts population scenarios from 2018 to 2100 for 195 countries and territories ...
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Close to 108,260 ha of new forest planted during year’s first half
A total of 108,258 ha of forest were planted in the first six months, up 22% year-on-year.Vietnam is working on a project to grow one billion trees nationwide between 2021 and 2025. They will include 690 million trees in urban and rural areas, and 310 ...
National target programme on sustainable poverty reduction reviewed
Vietnam aims to reduce the poverty rate to about 0.9% by 2025, heard a national conference on November 17 to review the implementation of the National Target Programme for Sustainable Poverty Reduction for 2021-2025 held in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai.According to Deputy ...
Project to help Vietnam produce quality population data for policy making, implementation
A project debuted on May 5 to support Vietnamese agencies in producing and utilising quality population data for the formulation and implementation of socio-economic development policies, strategies, and programmes.Project VNM10P04, which is also meant to help with the monitoring of the realisation of the Sustainable ...
Vietnam ranks high in digitalisation: research
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 ...
ASEAN journalists share digital newsrooms management experience
The International Press Workshop “Digital Newsrooms Management: Theory, Practice, Experience in the ASEAN Region” was held by the Vietnam Journalists’ Association in Hanoi on December 7. The event drew the participation of delegates from the Confederation of ASEAN Journalists who discussed and shared measures to ...
Three scenarios to help digital economy make breakthrough by 2025
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 ...
Forum discusses Việt Nam's digital roadmap
The First National Forum on Digital Economy and Society Development took place in Nam Định City on Thursday (14/9). The forum was co-chaired by the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC), the Central Economic Commitee (CEC) and the People’s Committee of Nam Định Province to ...
Vietnam promotes digital literacy
The Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC), in coordination with several UN agencies and international organisations in Vietnam, held a conference on digital literacy on October 13. The event entitled Digital Literacy: Digital Skills for the Communities was one activity in the framework of the Vietnam ...
MIC plans to boost digital infrastructure, digital applications in 2024
In 2024, the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) will focus on key tasks, including the development of digital infrastructure and digital applications to boost the digital economy, creating new momentum for economic growth and labour productivity, Minister of Nguyen Manh Hung has said.The ministry ...
Vietnam’s multidimensional poverty rate dropping
The multidimensional poverty rate in Vietnam reduced from 9.9 percent in 2016 to 4.5 percent in last year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO) under the Ministry of Planning and Investment. The rate in rural areas is higher than that in urban areas, but ...
Project to plant 1 billion trees submitted to Prime Minister
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has submitted to the Prime Minister a project to plant 1 billion trees in the 2021-2025 period. Specifically, 690 million trees will be planted in both urban and rural areas, and 310 million trees in concentrated forests.The Ministry of ...
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Population faces new challenges
The population sector of the nation are facing new challenges in terms of significant disparities in fertility among regions, imbalances in the sex ratio at birth, ineffective exploitation of the advantages of the golden population, and a lack of synchronous solutions.This was the content shared ...
Workshop promotes digital school management
Digital transformation has been and will be a mandatory requirement for educational institutions to ensure progress, training quality, and all training organisation and management activities towards sustainable development, contributing to training quality human resources serving economic development.Acknowledging the role of digital transformation in education, the Horizon International Bilingual ...
New regulations on foreign exchange management
The State Bank of Viet Nam has issued Circular No. 06/2019/TT-NHNN on foreign exchange management for foreign direct investment activities in Viet Nam.The Circular, scheduled to take effect since September 6, 2019, regulates such activities like capital contribution, opening and use of foreign currency and ...
Vietnam’s child labour rate 2 percentage points lower than region’s average: survey
Vietnam’s child labour rate is approximately 2 percentage points lower than the regional average for Asia and the Pacific, found the second national child labour survey, which was released on December 18. The survey was conducted by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) ...
Vietnam's population hits 96 million
The Central Steering Committee for the Population and Housing Census published preliminary results from the 2019 census on July 11 in Hanoi.As at April 1, Vietnam’s population was more than 96.2 million people, with men accounting for 49.8 per cent and women 50.2 per cent. ...
