Vietnam built an “Intended Nationally Determined Contributions" (INDC) report on climate change and is implementing the report in an effort to respond to climate change, said Nguyen Khac Hieu, Deputy Head of the Department of Hydrometeorology and...
Measures for adapting to climate change and mitigating the weather's impacts in northern Hung Yen Province were discussed at a workshop in the province last week. The workshop also spread information on climate change and its impact on various...
Students from low-income families studying in universities, colleges and vocational schools will have fees waived and get other financial assistance under a recent decision approved by the Prime Minister. The decision will take effect in the new...
In the framework of a seminar to develop reading culture in school and community in the northern province of Bac Giang, the Ministry of Education and Training yesterday launched science research clubs in high schools across the country. Deputy...
A Singaporean entrepreneur has donated a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner to the Danang Hospital in central Danang city to assist with the examination and treatment of local Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin victims. Harold Chan Soo York presented...
Secretary of the Britain-Vietnam Friendship Society (BVFS) Len Aldis has passed away at his home at Tomlins Grove Street, London, the United Kingdom. As a peace campaigner known throughout the world, Aldis has been unstinting in his effort to help...
A group of 20 men sneak into an airbase in the southern province of Dong Nai. They climb up a tree, jump over a fence and start to catch fish from the lakes inside Bien Hoa Airbase. After around seven hours, they leave with more than a hundred...
As many as 25 poor patients in the Mekong Delta region living with heart disease will receive free heart surgery under a program funded by the Sponsoring Association for Poor Patients in the south-western region. According to the president of the...
Police have summoned a large number of students from ethnic villages in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak for smoking cannabis, which is banned in Vietnam, and offered to excuse them in this instance so they can continue their studies. They...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a climate change adaptation project costing EUR52.3 million to be funded from the Agence Française de Développement (AFD). The financial support including EUR1 million worth of non-refundable aid...
