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How Vietnam can walk the tightrope of US-China tensions
Vietnam faces the daunting prospect of balancing its relations with the U.S. and China as tensions escalate between the superpowers. The second October 16-17 visit by U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis to Vietnam this year attracted great attention among international experts. His first visit was ...
Viet Anh
The dark side of FDI in Vietnam
Cheating and overexploitation of workers are among the myriad of negative impacts FDI has had on Vietnam. Keep reading ...
VnExpress Reporter
Party leader Nguyễn Phú Trọng sworn in as new President
The newly-elected State President Nguyễn Phú Trọng took an oath of office for the 2016-21 tenure on Tuesday afternoon following the result of a morning vote by deputies of the 14th National Assembly (NA) during their on-going sixth session.Keep reading ...
VNS Reporter
Vietnam to develop its own satellite
Vietnam is working to develop its own earth observation satellite, which will help the country manage natural resources and mitigate the impacts of climate change and natural disasters.Keep reading ...
VNA Reporter
Vietnam to collect over 100 mln USD from forest environment services in 2018
Vietnam is forecast to collect approximately 2.5 trillion VND (106.4 million USD) from payments of forest environmental services in 2018. During the reviewed period, the fund mobilizes VND10 trillion or an average of over 1.3 trillion VND (55.3 million USD) a year from forest environment ...
Bich Hong
PM approves project on sustainable poverty reduction
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has recently approved a project on assisting hamlets and villages in border, mountainous, coastal, and island areas with new-style rural area building and sustainable poverty reduction for the 2018-2020 period. Keep reading ...
VNA Reporter
Joint initiative in Hanoi to make internet more gender equal
The Swedish Embassy, UNDP, UN Women, civil society organisations, business community and local media are cooperating with Wikimedia to highlight achievements of women from Vietnam on the occasion of the National Women’s Day (20 October). With the initiative, the organisers want to increase the number ...
UNDP
Campaign launched to stop violence in child education
A campaign promoting non-violent education was launched in Hà Nội yesterday.[]About 2,000 cases of child abuse are reported in Việt Nam each year, 60 per cent of them are sexual abuse, according to statistics from MOLISA. Keep reading ...
VNS Reporter
Vietnam eliminates lymphatic filariasis
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced that Vietnam has eliminated lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem. According to the WHO, lymphatic filariasis is an infection transmitted to humans by mosquitoes.Keep reading ...
Ha Quyen
Finland helps Vietnam build forestry database
Vietnam has set up a fully integrated forestry information database under a project funded by the Finnish Government, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) said at a recent conference in Hanoi. Data from forests across the country and more than 1.4 million forest ...
Bich Hong
