The 6th Global Environment Facility (GEF-6) closed in the central city yesterday with nearly 30 countries pledging to create a US$4.1 billion fund to protect the future of the planet and human well-being.
Between 2018 and 2022, 782 poor coastal families in central Thanh Hóa Province will receive a fund of more than VNĐ4 billion (US$177,700) from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) to build reinforced houses, ensuring their safety during floods.
The transport minister has requested the railway management board to work closely with contractors to put Cát Linh-Hà Đông elevated railway in trial operation in August, one month earlier than expected.
Government agencies and donors have joined hands to provide urgent assistance to people who have been affected by floods in the past several days.
Households in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Nông have complained that explosions at a nearby hydropower plant construction site may be causing damage to their homes.
A court in northern Ninh Bình Province on Wednesday sentenced an HIV-infected paedophile to two-and-half years in prison for sexually assaulting a neighbour.
The Journalism for Sustainable Development Award (JSD Award), launched on Thursday, aims to support the media in joining sustainable development process.
Ministry of Transport (MoT) has invited some police officers to participate in monitoring activities on build-transfer (BT) and build-operate-transfer (BOT) projects.
The capital city of Hà Nội has created favourable conditions for luring investment in infrastructure under the build-transfer (BT) mode, but municipal authorities require that BT investments be transparent and comply with the law.
All ports along the Sài Gòn River will be relocated by the end of the year to reduce pressure on transport in HCM City, according to a report from the Transport Ministry submitted to the Government.
Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc held meetings with leaders of the South Pacific countries of Nauru and Marshall as well as South America's Guyana on the sidelines of the sixth Assembly of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) in central Đà Nẵng yesterday.
Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc asked the World Bank (WB) to continue its financial and technical support for Việt Nam during his meeting with the WB’s Vice President for East Asia and Pacific Victoria Kwakwa on the sidelines of the sixth Assembly of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) in central Đà Nẵng yesterday.
Doctors at Chợ Rẫy Hospital in HCM City have carried out kidney removal from living donors using robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery.
The HCM City People’s Procuracy on June 27 proposed a four- to five-year prison sentence for Đặng Thanh Bình, former deputy governor of the State Bank of Việt Nam (SBV), who has been charged with “lacking responsibility and causing serious consequences”.
The Việt Nam Red Cross Society in collaboration with the National Humanitarian Portal 1400 has launched an SMS campaign to mobilise funds to support Agent Orange victims in Việt Nam.
HCM City is calling for investment in a new inland container depot (ICD) project with total costs of VNĐ5.8 trillion (US$ 250 million) in Long Bình Ward in District 9.
An inauguration ceremony in the city was held yesterday (June 26) to open Romania’s Honorary Consulate Office at No 214 Võ Thị Sáu Street in HCM City’s District 3.
Việt Nam has not recorded any mutations of the swine flu (A/H1N1) virus, according to Dr Nguyễn Thanh Trường from HCM City’s Hospital for Tropical Diseases.
Nông Thôn Việt magazine’s Rural Bridges Programme yesterday inaugurated 11 bridges it built in Thạnh Hưng District, Long An Province.
Four people died after being electrocuted while installing telecommunications pylons in the central province of Nghệ An.
