Sustainable Development Goals
Environmentally-friendly production and consumption to enhanced
The production and use of environmentally-friendly and recycled products will be encouraged in economic development plans for the 2021-30 period.In 2021-2025, laws and policies on sustainable production and consumption will be employed, including regulations, technical standards of sustainable production, ecological designs, designs for reusing and recycling ...
Vietnam sees greater budget transparency
Vietnam’s Open Budget Index (OBI) increased rapidly in 2019 compared to 2018, according to a survey released on July 1. Conducted by the International Budget Partnership (IBP) and announced globally and in Vietnam for the seventh time, the Open Budget Survey showed that Vietnam had advanced in ...
Innovation Challenge launched to tackle plastic pollution in ASEAN
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), together with the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), on June 24 launched an ASEAN-wide innovation challenge to deal with plastic waste in Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay and Thailand’s Koh Samui (Samui Island) in 2020, followed by Indonesia and ...
Made-in-Vietnam COVID-19 vaccine makes significant progress
A made-in-Vietnam vaccine against COVID-19 is making advanced progress, signalling the imminent completion of the whole project, meaning a possible vaccine may not be far away. Vabiotech has now passed two-months of progress in the first phase of the project, which is also the most important ...
National action plan on sustainable production, consumption issued
Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has signed a decision approving the national action plan on sustainable production and consumption for 2021-2030. In the period from 2021-2025, the plan sets the goal of reducing fuel and material use of production industries such as textile-garment, steel, plastic, ...
National climate change strategy reviewed
The Department of Climate Change under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment cooperated with the French Development Agency (AFD) in organising a seminar in Hanoi on June 24 to review the implementation of the national strategy and action plan on climate change and propose ...
Three Vietnamese female scientists named among Top 100 Asian researchers
Three Vietnamese female scientists have been named among the 100 most outstanding researchers of the year, according to Singapore’s Asian Scientist Magazine.All of them received the 2019 L’Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science National Fellowship, an award which honours the excellence of women who are on ...
Coronavirus pandemic accelerating with Americas worst, warns WHO
The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating, with Thursday’s 150,000 new cases the highest in a single day and nearly half of those in the Americas, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. As well as the Americas, a large number of new cases were coming from South ...
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Vietnam 13th in global Covid-19 recovery ranking
Vietnam has done better than many major economies in recovering from Covid-19, ranking 13th among 184 countries and territories.In Asia, Vietnam ranked fifth after Thailand, Taiwan, South Korea and Malaysia, according to the Global Covid-19 Index updated June 16 by Malaysia-based consulting firm Pemandu Associates ...
Nguyen Quy
Mekong Delta Coordinating Council for 2020-2025 established
The Prime Minister has decided to establish and issue the operational regulation of the Mekong Delta Coordinating Council for the 2020-2025 period, headed by Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung.The Council is responsible for putting forwards to the PM mechanisms, policies, strategies, plans, projects, programs and tasks for ...
Thuy Dung
