Việt Nam News

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Lê Minh Hoan addressed legislators’ concerns on social resources, supply chain recovery, input materials, consumption, and technology application in agriculture yesterday morning.

Two designs made of tiles and bricks, traditional building materials of Việt Nam, are representing Việt Nam’s architecture at the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism that is being held until October 31.

Having worked in biopolymer research for more than a decade, Đoàn Văn Tùng in HCM City, began his adventure by founding the iGreen development company in 2020 – a start-up promoting bioplastic production as an alternative to polluting fossil-based plastic.

HCM City will assess the relationship between the factors that cause climate change and its socio-economic plans to develop long-term responses.

Nearly 200,000 Youth Union members, most of them young people, and members of the public in HCM City joined hands for a two-week voluntary social service campaign.

The building materials industry has grown at 8-12 per cent in the past three years and is expected to maintain good growth next year, a seminar heard in HCM City on Wednesday.

A wide range of products and services related to real estate, architecture and interior and exterior decoration will be showcased at the Vietbuild International Exhibition to be held in HCM City from September 26 to 30.

Trần Minh Tiến, owner of a shop in Long An Province, said he sells some 10 kinds of goods made from natural and environment-friendly materials such as grasses, bamboo and coconut fibre, replacing products made from plastic.

Ninety per cent of high-rise buildings in Việt Nam have failed to integrate energy efficiency into their design and operations, causing enormous wastage, especially with the number of such buildings growing by 6 – 7 per cent a year.

Former Deputy Minister of Transport, Professor Lã Ngọc Khuê, talks to the Lao Động (Labour) and Việt Nam News newspapers about the glaring imbalance of Việt Nam’s traffic system: the rail market share falling precipitously, the airline sector is overloaded and an abused road transportation system results in huge losses of national resources and higher product prices, as well as worsening pollution and traffic congestion.

Green buildings are expected to become a new trend in the low- and medium-priced housing segments.