Land
Ministries connected national land cover database, national population database
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the Ministry of Public Security have connected the national database on land with the national database on the population including 18 types of information.The two ministries included information about land users, ownership of assets attached to land, ...
Anh Phuong - Dan Thuy
Finance ministry to raise taxes on land and housing
The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has recently approved a scheme for tax reform until 2030, under which taxes on land and housing will be raised. Under the scheme, the first draft law on property will be submitted to the National Assembly in 2023 and is ...
Solutions needed if hydropower plant extension is to meet deadline: deputy minister
The ongoing expansion of the Ialy Hydropower Plant in the Central Highlands region is facing several issues, including unresolved land rights problems, affecting the project’s completion.Two additional turbines with a total capacity of 360MW to extend the current Ialy Hydropower Plant capacity are planned to ...
Vietnam to strictly handle corruption, negativities in land management
Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh yesterday (5/9) signed Decision No.115/NQ-CP to launch the Government’s action program for Resolution No.39/2021/QH15, released by the National Assembly on November 13, 2021 about national land use planning in the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050 as well ...
HCMC launches online land data platform
Citizens and businesses can now see data on zoning and land use purposes across Ho Chi Minh City via an online platform.The platform comprises the two websites geodata-stnmt.tphcm.gov.vn and esb-stnmt.tphcm.gov.vn to store a total 450 resource and environmental data files of the whole city, including information on subdivision, land ...
Thu Hang
Reforestation planned to replace forestlands cleared in construction of North-South Expressway
The Government has recently submitted to the National Assembly Standing Committee a report on converting forests, forest land and wet-rice land for the North-South Expressway in 2021-25.Accordingly, the Government proposed changing the land use purpose of 1,054 hectares of forest to ensure no major impact ...
Low-lying Mekong Delta deals with worsening land subsidence
The Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta region needs “consistent strategies” to deal with groundwater extraction, land subsidence and saltwater intrusion in an increasingly urbanising area, experts said at a conference in Ho Chi Minh City on November 26.Nguyen Huu Thien, who is deputy head of the ...
Vietnam strives to conserve, sustainably use wetlands
A national action plan on the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands in the 2021-2030 period has been issued, with priority given to recover important wetlands that are under degradation. The plan aims to complete the investigation, statistics and inventory of the wetland database at ...
Getting rich or ending up in prison from land deals
It is a huge responsibility of the compilers of the revised Land Law to best promote this extremely important resource and at the same time minimize gaps and limitations to prevent special interest groups from acquiring and extracting benefits from land.On September 9, 2021, the ...
Kien Trung
Local communities lend a hand to forest protection
Kon Ka Kinh National Park, located in the Kon Hà Nừng Plateau Biosphere Reserve, the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai, is being protected thanks to the engagement of the local ethnic minority community. Twenty-six communities of the Bahnar ethnic group have been assigned the ...
