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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 ...
Project proves women’s role in increasing community’s resilience to natural disasters
The Centre for Social Research and Development (CSRD) on March 29 held a workshop in the central city of Hue to summarise the results of its project on enhancing women’s role in increasing the resilience of the coastal community and eco-system in the central region ...
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 ...
Green economy needs no rush
For Vietnam, it is a good opportunity for domestic enterprises to become companions, to grow alongside and to develop. From a wider perspective, it should be the lifeline for the planet.The 2022 FDI report with the key topics of green growth and digital transformation released ...
Hoang Hanh, Thanh Tam
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 ...
Workshop highlights importance of impact-based disaster forecasting
Impact-based forecasting and warning information plays a very important role, contributing to disaster damage reduction and socio-economic development, experts said at an international workshop in the northern province of Hoa Binh on March 22.At the workshop, the ADPC guided participants on how to build an ...
Financial aid for ethnic minority housing and land reclamation
Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang has signed off on a decision for assistance in house building and land reclamation for residents in ethnic minority and mountainous areas. The assistance is meant to help with the implementation of the national target programme on socio-economic development ...
Vietnam to develop 1 million ha of low-emission high-quality rice by 2030: draft
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is about to complete a draft of the project to develop 1 million ha of low-emission high-quality rice in Vietnam, according to Deputy Minister Tran Thanh Nam.The project is part of the activities to implement Vietnam’s Strategy for ...
Ministry issues action plan to reduce methane emissions till 2030
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has issued an action plan to reduce methane emissions till 2030, with six major tasks. The action plan targets methane emissions in cultivation, animal husbandry, solid waste management, waste water treatment, oil and gas exploitation, coal mining and ...
