Sustainable Development Goals
Better awareness of women’s political participation needed: minister
At a conference reviewing the 10-year implementation of the Law on Gender Equality held in Hanoi on October 17, Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung noted an important change over the past years is that there has been an observable improvement in men’s ...
Government officials trained for global citizenship
Thirty-two educators and government officials from seven countries in Southeast Asia are participating in a capacity-building workshop on fostering global citizenship for sustainable communities in Southeast Asia that opened on Tuesday in HCM City. The four-day workshop is jointly organised by the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organisation ...
Joint commitment signed to facilitate nutrition improvement for Vietnamese mothers and children
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has joined delegates to sign a joint commitment to promote efforts in improving maternal nutrition and complementary feeding practices in Vietnam.The event was part of the launching for the State of the World’s Children 2019 report and a framework ...
Cybersecurity Emergency Response Center established
The Ministry of Information and Communications has decided to establish the Viet Nam Cybersecurity Emergency Response Teams/Coordination Center (VNCERT/CC). The center is located in the capital city of Ha Noi and has two branches in Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang City.The new center is ...
Harnessing a digital future
With its vast potential of e-commerce development thanks to surging IT and wide smartphone coverage, Vietnam is trying to build its own digital economy fuelled by a hallmark strategy on Industry 4.0 that is expected to help the country improve its competitiveness, attract more high-quality ...
Thanh Dat
Made-in-Vietnam text-to-speech app reads to the blind
Text-to-speech technology has actually been researched and used around the world for many years, and is widely applied in services such as consulting, customer interaction, smart homes and smart traffic. The desire to have an artificial voice with the same emotion and tone of a Vietnamese ...
Norway-funded project to help turn ocean plastic into development chances
A project funded by the Norwegian Government made debut at a seminar in Ho Chi Minh City on October 4, aiming to help Vietnam turn plastic wastes from the oceans into chances in a circular economy. Vietnam is one of the five Asian countries to benefit ...
Mekong Delta’s sea level rise alarming: US professor
Rising sea levels and saltwater intrusion in the Mekong Delta are becoming alarming, said Prof. David Dapice, Senior Economist, Vietnam and Myanmar Programme, Harvard Kennedy School, at a meeting with leaders of Can Tho city on October 8.Dapice said a study released by Utrecht University ...
Vietnam improves the most in global competitiveness report: WEF
Vietnam improves the most among 141 economies, up 10 places to rank 67th in terms of competitiveness, according to the latest Global Competitiveness Report 2019 recently released by the World Economic Forum (WEF). According to the report, Vietnam scored 61.5 points out of the maximum 100 ...
Ngoc Mai
ASEAN ministers agree on prioritised actions for environmental sustainability
The 15th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on the Environment (AMME 15) and related meetings concluded in Siem Reap, Cambodia, on October 9 and released a joint statement.In the statement, the ministers acknowledged the achievements and progress of regional environmental protection and cooperation on a number of environmental issues, in ...
