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Delta must have 'emergency plan' on climate change
The Mekong Delta region must include an “emergency” response to climate change in its regional planning for the 2021-30 period as rising seas, coastal erosion and subsidence could occur earlier than previously thought, Deputy Prime Trịnh Đình Dũng said on Thursday (28/5) in Hà Nội. In ...
Deforestation continues to rage in Việt Nam
Việt Nam will mark four years of natural forest closure this July, a measure to reverse severe deforestation. A total 58 localities closed their natural forests from July 2016, following Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc’s order which aimed to halt wood exploitation by State agencies, including ...
Việt Nam Government presents reports on joining ILO convention against forced labour to parliament
Joining the International Labour Organisation (ILO)’s Abolition of Forced Labour Convention (Convention 105) is significant to Việt Nam in political, economic, social and legal spheres, Vice President Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh said on Wednesday. With 10 chapters, it prescribes fundamental international regulations on the abolition of ...
Border soldiers help improve lives for ethnic minority people
The lives of ethnic minority people in the central province of Quảng Bình’s Minh Hóa District have changed thanks to the care of soldiers over the past 10 years.Bringing wet rice to Rục ethnic people was a “revolution” which helped people approach new production methods to ...
No appropriate solutions implemented to improve pollution: MONRE
An increase in the number of industrial zones has been polluting Việt Nam’s environment, and there are no appropriate solutions in place, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) warned in its draft 2019 report on environment protection released on Tuesday (05/05). Climate change is ...
Biodiversity needs proper protection measures
Việt Nam’s biodiversity is facing many challenges, especially in the context of global climate change.According to scientists of the Việt Nam Association for Conservation of Nature and Environment (VACNE), the three issues of biodiversity, climate change and sustainable development must be properly handled to achieve ...
Việt Nam to adopt anti-forced labour convention, extend agricultural land use tax incentive: NA
Việt Nam plans to join the Convention 105 (C105) on the abolition of forced labour developed by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee concluded at its 44th session on Tuesday (28/04). Members of NA Financial and Budget Committee said policies of ...
Long An to build erosion-prevention projects along rivers
The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Long An will build erosion prevention projects along rivers to protect locals’ properties and safety, the provincial People’s Committee has said. One of the new erosion prevention projects is a 700 metre embankment along the Bảo Định River ...
Việt Nam forecast to face historic heat waves in 2020
Việt Nam is forecast to suffer the highest temperatures ever recorded in 2020, according to the latest report by the Meteorological and Hydrological Administration. The country is predicted to face increasing and complicated pattern of natural disasters this year due to the impact of global ...
Localities call for extension of social distancing: Committee
A number of localities have proposed extending the social distancing measures beyond April 15, according to a conference of the National Steering Committee on the Prevention and Control of COVID-19. While the majority of localities proposed that social distancing end on April 15, eight localities including ...
