Considering all the benefits that the model offers in helping locals escape poverty, ensuring food safety, and maintaining clean and tidy urban landscapes, it is crucial for HCM City to replicate the model on a larger scale. VNS … [Read more...] about Food streets improve vendors’ incomes, tidy up neighbourhoods
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VIETNAM NEWS JANUARY 16
Despite fast population aging and the number of people aged 65 and above making up 7.7 percent of the population, Vietnam is still one of the few countries effectively responding to the pandemic. To sustain this achievement, it should prepare all conditions necessary for ensuring social security and nursing services for the elderly, especially the ones living alone, at care centres, and with disabilities, the UNFPA said./. … [Read more...] about VIETNAM NEWS JANUARY 16
Waste treatment flourishes in Mekong Delta, southeastern provinces
The “Together with farmers protecting the environment” program helps raise farmers’ awareness of the importance of environmental protection The southeastern region is leading the country in solid waste collection rate and treatment technology. In Dong Nai Province, for example, about 1,838 tonnes of domestic solid waste - 98 percent of the total - is collected and treated daily. This is the highest rate in the country, while only 43 percent of domestic solid waste is buried, reaching the lowest rate in the country. In neighboring Binh Duong Province, nearly 96 percent of about 1,600 tonnes of domestic solid waste generated daily is collected and transported to the Nam Binh Duong solid waste treatment plant. … [Read more...] about Waste treatment flourishes in Mekong Delta, southeastern provinces
Scientist helps farmers profit from medicinal mushrooms
Nguyễn Thị Liên Thương, director of Application Development Institute of Thủ Dầu Một University in southern Bình Dương Province, has provided many inventions and initiatives for agricultural production, goods consumption and clean technology transfer. … [Read more...] about Scientist helps farmers profit from medicinal mushrooms