A shortage of clean water has affected residents, restaurants, offices and businesses in several parts of Hanoidue to a broken pipeline from the Da River Water Supply Plant. And it is likely that the situation will not be completely rectified until...
Save Vietnam's Wildlife (SVW) and Cuc Phuong National Park has rescued 56 Java Pangolins in Thanh Hoa Province. The animals were rescued by authorities in Nga Son district, 30km north of Thanh Hoa City. Officials said the total weight of the...
Police in the central province of Quang Binh on August 19 stopped a van and discovered wild animals on board, including small Indian civets (Viverricula indica) and soft shell turtles, all being transported illegally. Traffic police ordered the stop...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has called on the HCM City administration to step up efforts to prevent the flooding that plagues several inner districts. The city also needed to keep a close eye on zoning plans for reservoirs and speed up...
A survey by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has revealed small-scale incinerators for everyday garbage, including plastic, in Vietnam do not meet environmental safety standards. Nguyen Thanh Yen, deputy director of the Waste...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) this year decided to combine the high school graduation exam and university entrance exam into one holistic test on hope of easing test-taking pressure and saving money and time for those...
As much as VND120 million ($5,400) raised by people in the southern province of Soc Trang was handed over to French-Vietnamese Tran To Nga on August 12 to support her lawsuit against US chemical companies to seek justice for Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has signed a document stipulating financial support for the poor in building houses amid miserable living conditions in many parts across the country. Under the regulations, poor households which own a...
The Central Highlands provinces still have 23,500 migrant ethnic-minority households who have not settled in zoned areas, according to the Steering Committee for the Central Highlands region. Some of these families live in tents in deep forests...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) recently signed two technical cooperation program on forest conservation and coastal ecology protection, reported the Saigon Giai...
