Disasters and emergency response
National plan for natural disaster prevention and control released
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has coordinated with relevant ministries, sectors and localities to build a national plan for natural disaster prevention and control to 2025.Under Decision No. 342/QĐ-TTg issued by the Prime Minister on March 15, 2022, the plan defines major ...
First water level monitoring station opens atop lower Mekong basin
The Mekong River Commission (MRC) has unveiled the Xieng Kok water level monitoring station in Laos that’s expected to reduce downstream vulnerability to unexpected flows. The station sits on Laos’s northern border with Myanmar. The commission handed the station over the Laos government to operate ...
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Vietnam to officially launch COVID-19 vaccine passports this week
The Ministry of Health expects to officially grant digital COVID-19 vaccination certificates, also known as ‘vaccine passports,’ across Vietnam this week after a smooth pilot at three hospitals in Hanoi, an official has said. Vietnam’s vaccination record card will contain personal information and vaccination data encrypted into a QR ...
Vinh Tho - Lan Anh
Are Vietnam’s locally made Covid-19 vaccines viable?
Among the vaccines developed by Vietnamese companies, NanoCovax is considered the one that can ‘go far’, though the end point is unclear.December 2021 should have been the time for Covivac vaccine to enter Phase 3 of a clinical trial. However, a member of the research ...
Phu Sy
Vietnam warned of 6°C rise by century end
As one of the few hardest-hit countries by climate change, Vietnam is urged to take drastic measures to curb impacts that will not appear in the distant future.Temperatures could rise as much as 6°C in Vietnam at the end of this century in the worst-case ...
Erosion worsening along Mekong Delta rivers, coast
The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta is facing severe erosion along its rivers and coast, affecting people’s lives and agriculture.The country’s largest rice, fruit and seafood producer had 621 eroded sites with a total length of 610 kilometres along rivers and coasts by the end of ...
Mekong riparian nations plan measures against changing water flows
Six riparian countries are expected to identify adaptation measures relating to the Mekong River’s flow regime by the end of 2022, according to the Mekong River Commission (MRC).Anoulak Kittikhoun, the new MRC Secretariat Chief Executive Officer (CEO), told VnExpress International in Hanoi last week that the ...
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Solutions to protect environment and promote circular economy
Towards the goal of building and developing solutions to promote the circular economy and solve the problem of increasingly depleted resources and increasingly serious environmental pollution, which strong impacts on the living environment, causing dangerous diseases. This is a great challenge for ministries and branches ...
Vietnam after one year of vaccination: Facts and figures
March 8, 2022 marked one year since Vietnam launched the inoculation campaign against Covid-19, which resulted in the country ranking among six nations with the highest vaccination rate. After one year of efforts, Vietnam has administered more than 198 million doses, raising the vaccination coverage ...
Measures proposed to address food security vulnerabilities exposed by COVID-19 in SE Asia
A core element of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), food security, now looms as a priority for Southeast Asia, particularly after the COVID-19 pandemic has passed, according to an article published on The Diplomat online news magazine.Experts stressed that COVID-19 stopped any progress made ...
