Wildlife protection

In the past tenure, Vietnam has set up comprehensive partnership with five more countries and upgraded relations with two others to a strategic partnership, raising the total numbers of its strategic partners to 17 and comprehensive partners to 13, including all permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and ASEAN member nations. … [Read more...] about Diplomacy helps create favourable environment for national development: official

The HCMC Department of Transport said that in recent years, air pollution in the country, especially big cities has been getting worse with the high concentration of air pollutants due to direct emission sources from motor vehicles in general and motorbikes in particular being harmful for human health. Pursuant to the result of the city's research program on exhaust emission test for motorcycle towards pilot control of motorbikes, there were around 7.4 million motorcycles in the city in September 2020, of which the number of over 10- year used motorbikes with emission exceeding current standards accounts for 67.89 percent. As this reason, if motorbike emission is controlled well, the amount of harmful emissions into the environment will significantly reduce and the air quality in the city will be also drastically improved. … [Read more...] about 76 percent people advocate exhaust emission test for motorcycles

The corridor running 1,450km through Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam is an economic development programme initiated to promote development and integration of five Southeast Asian countries, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. The concept was agreed in 1998 at the Ministerial Conference of the Greater Mekong Subregion, organised in Manila, Philippines. This corridor became operational on December 12, 2006. In Vietnam, the project starts at Lao Bao International Border Gate in Quang Tri province, running along Highway No9 and 1A to Da Nang city. … [Read more...] about VIETNAM NEWS JANUARY 28

From the perspective of a funding partner and a technical advisor, Mrs. Chever Voltmer, - Plastics Initiative Director at Ocean Conservancy, shared: “Ocean Conservancy is thrilled to support this innovative approach to tackling plastic pollution in Vietnam’s Red River. We believe that tech solutions to this crisis need to be locally designed, locally maintained, and cost-effective, and this trash trap device meets all those criteria. It will keep plastics out of a critical ecosystem while serving as an opportunity to increase our shared scientific capacity and knowledge to combat plastic pollution. Together with our valued partners, we look forward to building on this initial success to help Vietnam meet its ambitious goals to fight marine debris.” … [Read more...] about Launching ceremony of river trash capture tool in Nam Dinh

On January 27, Dinh Quan District People's Committee announced that they will provide a grant to households that suffered damages. The money is from the district's budget and they have worked with the banks to distribute VND3.1bn (USD133,800). According to Dinh Quan authorities, since 2019, the elephants have damaged crops of 127 households in Thanh Son Commune. The authorities will provide financial support worth 5-10% of the damaged crop if less than 70% of the household's fields for annual crops were damaged and 10-15% if over 70% of the fields were damaged. For perennial crops, farmers will get support of 15% if less than 50% of their fields were damaged and 30% support for over 50% damages. They will also get support that worth 30% of the value of the damaged tents and agricultural equipment. The authorities and Agribank in Dong Nai agreed on January 27 to provide support to 124 households. In July 2017, Dong Nai Forest Protection Department started running the 50km electric … [Read more...] about Villagers supported after elephant rampage