Sustainable Development Goals
Review of support policies for Coronavirus-affected businesses and people
The Government has put forward policy proposals and issued a number of policies in support of businesses and people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.On April 8, the Government promulgated Resolution No. 41/2020/ND-CP on deferral of payment of taxes and land rental, which took place on the same ...
Quang Minh
Workers affected by COVID-19 receive free vocational training
The German development agency Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), in cooperation with the Directorate of Vocational Education and Training and the Departments of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs in eight cities and provinces, will offer short training courses for 1,000 workers affected by the ...
Training costs are high, but students stay abroad to work: experts
A forum on the solutions to develop the contingent of intellectuals in 2021-2030 was organized by the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS) on September 25.According to Nguyen Huy Hoang from the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Vietnam still doesn’t have sufficient policies to ...
Le Huyen
Gov’t issues action plan to implement National Energy Development Strategy
PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc has issued an action plan to realize the Party Central Committee’s Resolution No. 55-NQ/TW dated on February 11, 2020 on the orientation of the National Energy Development Strategy to 2030 with a vision towards 2045.Under the action plan, the Government will ...
Kim Anh
Charity movement launched on iNhandao platform
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam attended the programme “Connecting millions of hearts” in Hanoi on October 1 to launch a charity movement on the iNhandao platform and debut digital platforms in education, health care and culture. The event was part of the project on ...
Danang begins one million ‘green’ house projects
Danang Department of Industry and Trade has launched a pilot project on the development of a million green roof-top solar power houses. The project, which was jointly developed with the centre for Green Innovation Development (Green ID), aims to raise potential solar power in the ...
Mechanism needed to get employers engaged in job training
Few employers are engaged in the links among the Government, job trainers, employers and trainees’ families due to the lack of a binding mechanism, vice director of Hanoi’s Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Nguyen Thanh Nhan said.With improved budgets for education, many families ...
Blending welfare into pursuit of prosperity
In its efforts to become a more affluent nation by 2035, Vietnam has made significant improvements in improving its Human Capital Index.Vietnam is experiencing rapid demographic and social change. Today, 70 percent of the population is under 35 years of age, with a life expectancy ...
Thanh Thu
Time to think about recycling of end-of-life solar panels: experts
The growth of solar power generation in Việt Nam has come alongside increasing concern over the disposal of end-of-life solar panels in the coming decades.The Ministry of Industry and Trade has issued a circular regulating solar power project development and power purchase contracts in which, project investors ...
Vietnam sets 17 sustainable development goals to 2030
The Government has set 17 sustainable development goals to 2030, in Decree No 136/NQ-CP which was issued recently.The decree outlines general tasks and solutions to realise the goals, with focus sharpened on completing institutions and policies, enhancing communications, promoting the role of and participation by ...
