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A seminar on building the capacity for dealing with the climate change in Quy Nhon city was held on November 10, 2008. Institute for Strategy and Policy on Science and Technology, Institute of Meteorology, Hydrography and Environment, and Rockefeller Fund’s consultants cooperated to hold the seminar.
Vietnam can save at least 5 percent of its total energy needs by 2010 and up to 8 percent by 2015 if a new energy conservation programme is approved by the Government
A Vietnamese company has released its first batch of self-dissolving plastic bags – a product that promises to solve a big environmental problem.
A national programme on producing biogas as fuel from farm animals’ excrement has spread to 29 provinces and cities nationwide with 50,000 family-based systems built during the past six years.
After more than two years of implementation, a project on developing, preserving and promoting the cultures of ethnic minority groups in the Northeastern Mountainous Province of Lao Cai in the 2006-2010 period has contribute to changing people’s awareness and has had positive effects on provincial socio-economic development.
A project to train farmers in Good Agricultural Practices (GAP)-oriented production of safe tea was launched at a conference in the northern province of Phu Tho on Nov. 11, 2008 attracting over 100 participants from 35 cities and provinces across the country.
A large, strange-looking fish was caught off the southernmost province of Ca Mau on November 5, 2008.
Sai Gon – Quy Nhon hotel won the first award in the new and existing building category in the 2nd energy-efficient building competition held by the energy saving center.
A small trader from Nga Bay Town in Hau Giang Province advertises a king cobra on sale for VND 4 million (USD 238), offering blood she says can be ingested to treat incurable diseases.
As tourism and international travel across the globe reaches unprecedented levels, so does the need to combat child labor and sexual exploitation in the global travel industry - that is why the United Nations body for tourism is taking action now.