Sustainable Development Goals
AIPA steps up parliarmentary cooperation in education, culture
As Chair of the ASEAN Inter-Parliarmentary Assembly (AIPA) for 2019-2020, the Vietnamese National Assembly (NA) hosted a virtual conference on “Parliamentary Partnership on Educational and Cultural Cooperation for Sustainable Development” (AIPA ECC) on July 30.Participants shared information and experience on educational and cultural cooperation, clarifying ...
Vietnam proposes audit on water resources in Mekong River basin
The State Audit of Vietnam (SAV) proposed that an audit on water resources in the Mekong River basin be conducted by the agency called “ASOSAI’s cooperative environmental audit in Southeast Asia in the 2020-2021 period”, at the 55th Executive Board meeting of the Asian Organisation ...
Hanoi faces a ‘waste crisis’
Landfills in Hanoi have become overloaded as progress on waste treatment projects continues slowly.In order to treat the increasingly high volume of domestic waste, Hanoi has put some waste treatment plants into operation, including Nedo incineration plant (75 tons a day), belonging to Nam Son ...
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Government plan aims to improve adaptation to climate change
Enhancing State management of climate change is one of the major measures in the national plan on climate change adaptation for 2021-2030, with a vision towards 2050, recently issued by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.In implementing the Government’s Resolution 93/NQ-CP in 2016 adopting the Paris ...
Việt Nam confirms 416th COVID-19 patient, return of community transmission
A 57-year-old man in Đà Nẵng has been confirmed as positive for coronavirus, marking the first case of community transmission of COVID-19 in Việt Nam in 100 days. It is unclear how the man, who is now on a ventilator, contracted the virus.There are currently 11,815 ...
Report highlights effect of COVID-19 on vulnerable households, companies
COVID-19 has had a serious impact on vulnerable households, especially those of ethnic minority groups, those with members working in the non-official sector, or those with immigrants, according to a report released at a conference in Hanoi on July 23.Jointly prepared by the UNDP, UN Women, ...
Vietnam now needs to walk the talk on sexual harassment
The amended Labour Code (LC) of Vietnam includes a number of positive and important provisions, including a definition of sexual harassment. These changes were accepted by the National Assembly (NA) on 20 November 2019. The new Labour Code defines sexual harassment in the workplace for ...
COVID-19 vaccine to begin human testing in Vietnam later this year
Vietnam could be in a position to conduct novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine trials on humans by the end of the year, providing that procedures for research and production of the vaccine are deployed in time, said Acting Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long.At present, Vietnam ...
Vietnam actively engages in UN Human Rights Council’s 44th session
A Vietnamese delegation, led by Ambassador Le Thi Tuyet Mai – Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the UN, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and other international organisations in Geneva, Switzerland – actively engaged in events during the three-week UN Human Rights Council’s 44th regular session that ...
UN calls for end to son preference and gender-biased sex selection
Urgent, accelerated action is needed to stop gender-biased sex selection and other practices that harm women and girls, according to UNFPA State of World Population report 2020 that was released on July 17 in Hanoi by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.The report, which focuses ...
