Sustainable Development Goals

Danang Department of Industry and Trade has launched a pilot project on the development of a million green roof-top solar power houses. The project, which was jointly developed with the centre for Green Innovation Development (Green ID), aims to raise potential solar power in the ...

Few employers are engaged in the links among the Government, job trainers, employers and trainees’ families due to the lack of a binding mechanism, vice director of Hanoi’s Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Nguyen Thanh Nhan said.With improved budgets for education, many families ...

In its efforts to become a more affluent nation by 2035, Vietnam has made significant improvements in improving its Human Capital Index.Vietnam is experiencing rapid demographic and social change. Today, 70 percent of the population is under 35 years of age, with a life expectancy ...

The growth of solar power generation in Việt Nam has come alongside increasing concern over the disposal of end-of-life solar panels in the coming decades.The Ministry of Industry and Trade has issued a circular regulating solar power project development and power purchase contracts in which, project investors ...

The Government has set 17 sustainable development goals to 2030, in Decree No 136/NQ-CP which was issued recently.The decree outlines general tasks and solutions to realise the goals, with focus sharpened on completing institutions and policies, enhancing communications, promoting the role of and participation by ...

The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) on September 25 introduced a Vietnamese virtual assistant platform as developed by the Army Telecommunication Industry Corporation (Viettel). Named the Viettel Cyberbot, the platform aims to help businesses automate customer care processes on the basis of Vietnamese language ...

Vietnam is one of four countries with the best HIV/AIDS treatment in the world along with Germany, the U.K. and Switzerland, Acting Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said. Vietnam has a rate of HIV-infected people receiving anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment with a viral load below the ...

Vietnam plans to ramp up its solar and wind power generation capacity, aiming to raise the proportion of renewables in its power mix to 15%-20% by 2030 and to 25%-30% by 2045, from 10% currently.Facing an imminent electricity shortage, Vietnam is developing renewables, along with ...

The Ministry of Justice, in collaboration with the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Vietnam and the UK Embassy, held a workshop on presentation of the database on the recognition and enforcement in Vietnam of foreign courts’ judgments and foreign arbitral awards. The database is posted on ...

Vietnam’s gender equality work has created initial positive changes in the awareness and behaviour of all-level leaders, officials, public servants and the people as a whole, contributing to enhancing the role and status of women in the family as well as in society, Deputy Minister ...