Vietnam’s outgoing Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has requested the Ministry of Natural Resource and Environment, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Vietnam Mekong River Committee to immediately send diplomatic notes to countries in upper...
Authorities and citizens of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta have been applying all possible measures and mobilizing available resources to minimize the damage caused by salinity. In Nga Nam Commune, Soc Trang Province, authorities have requested residents to...
Vietnamese Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat has asked local governments in the Mekong Delta to support farmers who suffered loss from ongoing drought and salt water intrusion, state media has reported. Governments should...
Admitting that the air in Hanoi has been polluted for a long time, the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment (MONRE) said the pollution level in Hanoi must not reach levels as high as in Beijing. Aqicn.org, the website which provides...
Over 10% of Vietnamese youths, or 2.6 million people, have not graduated from elementary school, according to a national report released by the Ministry of Home Affairs last week, state media reported. The report was unveiled during a conference on...
The U.S. Embassy Hanoi on March 10 announced the 2017 Fulbright Vietnamese Scholar Program (VSP) which provides grants to Vietnamese scholars to lecture and conduct research at American institutions or universities for three months up to nine months...
A 250 kilogram general-purpose bomb from the Vietnam War was unearthed in the central province of Quang Tri on Mar 2 when local workers were digging a well. Some workers found the bomb, which has been identified as an MK82, at around three meters...
Quang Binh Province will receive financial aid of nearly VND5.4 billion ($242,000) from the Golden West Humanitarian Foundation (GWHF) for an explosive objects detection project. The project is aimed at improving the knowledge and skills of officers...
Two European philanthropists have spent more than a year walking from their continent to Asia to raise funds for needy children in Vietnam. Simon Niggli from Switzerland and Christoph Obmascher from Austria have walked 7,000km across 19 countries...
Total outstanding loans to ethnic people in Vietnam reached an estimated VND33 trillion ($1.46 billion) at the end of 2015, the Thoi Bao Kinh Te Viet Nam newspaper reported, citing Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP). The money, which was...
