Sustainable Development Goals
No shortcuts for CBT
Developing community-based tourism (CBT) is a long journey, requiring sustainable cooperation among many sides to either create livelihoods for the local community or generate profits for businesses and make the destinations attractive without harming the local culture and environment.Keep reading ...
Nhan Tam
Gov't chief approves program to build one million social housing apartments
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has signed Decision 338/QD-TTg approving a program to build 1,062,200 social housing apartments for low-income earners and workers in industrial parks and processing zones in the 2021-2030 period.In Viet Nam, social housing sells at VND15 million per square meter on ...
Khanh Phuong
4th MRC International Conference of Stakeholders opens in Vientiane
The 4th Mekong River Commission (MRC) International Conference of Stakeholders was opened on April 2 in Vientiane, Laos with the theme ‘Innovation and Cooperation for a Water Secure and Sustainable Mekong’. During the two-day conference, representatives of the parties and regional and global experts will ...
Vietnamese students joint MRC river monitoring technology contest
Students from four Vietnamese universities are taking part in a Mekong River Commission (MRC) contest that seeks sustainable and advanced technologies for river monitoring. The competition, taking place in Vientiane on March 30 and 31, features 14 teams from 11 universities in MRC member states ...
Public services in digital environment under security
The Vietnam Social Security (VSS) organised a seminar from March 30 to March 31 in the northern city of Hai Phong as part of efforts to share experience in applying digital platforms and data to promote public services in the digital environment. According to Chu ...
Promoting gender equality and education for children in ethnic minority areas
The phase II of the project “We are ABLE – Promoting Gender Equality and Girls’ Education for Children in Ethnic Minority areas of Vietnam,” was launched at the Green One United Nations House in Hanoi on March 28.Phase II of the “We are ABLE” project ...
AI has important role to play in hydrometeorology: official
An official highlighted the important role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the field of hydrometeorology, while speaking at a webinar held by the Vietnam Meteorological and Hydrological Administration (VNMHA) on March 28.About the application of Big Data and AI to hydrometeorology, Vu Hoang Long, an advisor ...
Thang Trung
Innovative low carbon projects join climate finance accelerator Vietnam
The British Embassy in Hanoi on March 27 announced nine low carbon projects from across Vietnam as the first cohort to join Climate Finance Accelerator (CFA) Vietnam.The selected projects represent diverse sectors such as renewable energy, resource/energy efficiency, e-mobility, AFOLU (agriculture, forestry and other land uses), decarbonising ...
The reverse side of export growth
In recent years, Vietnam’s export revenue has soared in tandem with a rising number of lawsuits filed against local companies.In the eyes of Vietnamese businesses, the signings of 15 FTAs have minimized the use of tariff barriers for free flow trade, but it has paradoxically ...
Hung Le, Ngoc Nguyen
Vietnam gathers opinions on building voluntary national review on SDGs
The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) and the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) on March 24 jointly held a consultation conference on Vietnam’s voluntary national review (VNR) on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).Vietnam conducted the VNR, a mechanism through which ...
