Sustainable Development Goals

Vietnam is one of the pioneering countries in building a national digital transformation programme, with the three main pillars of digital government, digital economy, and digital society.Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc also issued Decision No 749/QD-TTg approving the national digital transformation programme by 2025 and vision towards ...

Gender equality at the workplace needs to be recognized as one of the drivers of long-term growth and breakthroughs for businesses, especially as Vietnam has a high proportion of women in the labor market, according to Nguyen Quang Vinh, General Secretary of the Vietnam Chamber ...

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has issued an express dispatch requesting the People’s Committees of cities and provinces and Vietnam Electricity (EVN) to urgently review and list all issues related to solar power development.Based on the roof solar power list nationwide, EVN must ...

Vietnam will have a digital government in place by 2025 with services provided around the clock, the Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung has promised. The entire administrative system would migrate online by “using data and digital technologies to redesign government operations,” he ...

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc talked about a new strategic viewpoint involving eight “Gs” on the development of the Mekong Delta while chairing a conference in Can Tho city on March 13. Eight “Gs” include: “giao thong” (traffic), “giao duc” (education), “giang” (rivers), “gan” (connecting), “giau” ...

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment hosted an online conference on March 4 discussing the building of a national marine space plan and a master plan on the exploitation and sustainable use of coastal resources in 2021-2030 and vision to 2045.According to General Director ...

In a bid to ensure sustainable development and economic growth, the government has enacted a fresh action programme on continuing response to climate change, with new mechanisms in favour of private investment.In addition to an increase in state budget in investing into responding to climate ...

Ho Chi Minh City could create more than 18,000 new jobs if the city were to recover 80 percent of recyclable and organic material in its waste stream, a new study has revealed.The Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) said its new study shows that ...

The Covid-19 pandemic offers the opportunity to accelerate digital transformation across the entire nation: the economy, the society; the state, the enterprises; the whole community, the entire people.The two-handed model, a free market and a strong state, have been confirmed in the Covid-19 prevention. Vietnam ...

Việt Nam expects to see women holding key leadership positions in 60 percent of state management agencies and local administrations at all levels by 2025 and 75 percent by 2030. The target was set in the National Strategy on Gender Equality for the 2021-30 period ...