Việt Nam to increase share of renewable energy to 30% by 2045: President

Việt Nam will greatly reduce coal-based power generation and rapidly increase the share of renewables in the total primary energy supply to 20 per cent by 2030 and 30 per cent by 2045, said Vietnamese President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on Friday night (Vietnamese time) while attending a session within the framework of the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate.

VCCI wants no minimum wage increase this year

The Việt Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) has proposed not increasing the minimum wage in 2021 as the COVID-19 pandemic is still heavily impacting Việt Nam’s socio-economic development as well as the world’s.

Unilever to fund sanitation upgrades at 1,100 schools

‘Green-Clean-Healthy School,’ an initiative by Unilever Vietnam and the Ministry of Education and Training, will support 1,100 primary schools around the country in improving their facilities and sanitation this year at a cost of VNĐ22 billion (US$954,800).

Large reservoir in Lâm Đồng dries up

Nguyễn Văn Tuấn has been farming around Dankia Lake in Lạc Dương District, Lâm Đồng Province for 10 years but he has never seen the lake as dry as now.

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