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70% of logistics service fees could fall into foreigners’ hands
As many as 3,000 Vietnamese logistics firms have to compete fiercely with 29 multinational companies to have the right to carry Vietnamese exports to the world market. According to the World Bank, the domestic logistics cost accounts for 22.59 percent of total logistics costs. Keep reading ...
Kim Chi
Gov’t proposes tuition-free elementary, secondary education
The Education Ministry has proposed free tuition for all public elementary and secondary schools as “an appropriate mechanism” for universalising access to education in the country.Keep reading ...
VietnamNet Reporter
Universities roll out red carpet for lecturers with doctorates
PhDs are now welcomed with open arms at universities, which are willing to pay hundreds of millions of dong to attract talented lecturers.Keep reading ...
Kim Chi
700 degraded dams to be fixed: official
The Water Resources Directorate (WRD) plans to repair some 700 reservoirs at high risk of bursting by 2030, an official said on November 23.Keep reading ...
VietnamNet Reporter
Ministry aims to boost business climate
The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) recently cut 675 business and investment procedures, equivalent to 55.5 per cent of total business conditions.Keep reading ...
VietnamNet Reporter
Non-communicable diseases – leading cause of death in Vietnam
The Vietnam Medicine Association and the Ministry of Health raised the fact that non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are now a leading cause of death in Vietnam at the sixth National Scientific Conference in Hanoi on November 21.Keep reading ...
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Antibiotics plague husbandry
Abuse of antibiotics in animal husbandry is alarming in Viet Nam, experts have warned.[]A survey on 200 chicken farms in Mekong Delta conducted in ViParc project, led by Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU) in Viet Nam, revealed that the average use of drugs for ...
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Vietnam has great potential to develop geothermal energy
Geothermal energy can be economically efficient and environmentally friendly, scientists say.[] According to the chair of the Vietnam Clean Energy Association, Ta Van Huong, Vietnam has geothermal potential at the average level. The great advantage of Vietnam is that the energy source is located throughout the ...
Kham Pha
Coal-fired power plants serving industry worsening pollution
Vietnam’s coal-fired power plants which generate electricity and those serving industrial plants are worsening pollution. Le Anh Tuan, deputy head of the Institute for Climate Change Studies under the Can Tho University, as in India and China, said that coal-fired power in Vietnam mostly serves industrial ...
Mai Chi
VN sees over $24 billion trade deficit from APEC economies
Total import-export turnover between Viet Nam and APEC member economies reached US$265.3 billion in the first 10 months of this year, a year-on-year increase of 17.4 per cent. Exports reached $120.48 billion and imports reached $144.83 billion, up 23.9 per cent and 22 per cent, respectively, ...
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