Experts warn high-rises ruin old quarter image

French and Vietnamese architecture experts are concerned that newly-built housing constructions are changing the face of the French-style quarter in Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem district for the worse.

Bac Kan Province invests VND 100 billion in building clean water supplies

The northern province of Bac Kan has earmarked VND 100 billion in investments for clean water supplies.

Development Bank encourages cleaner, greener energy use in Asia

function goto_link(ID) {window.location = '/monrenet/Default.aspx?tabid=259&ItemID='+ID;} The Asian Development Bank (ADB) released a statement on November 11th, 2008 pledging to issue a USD 3 million grant to expand its clean energy programme to involve more developing member countries.

Valuable experience from Australia

Binh Dinh’s delegation visited Australia to study the wastewater treatment technology, solid waste management, and the chemically-enhanced primary treatment (CEPT) technology applied for the construction of wastewater treatment plants in Quy Nhon city. Binh Dinh Newspaper’s reporter spoke with vice director of Quy Nhon city environmental sanitation project administration, Le Van Lich, about the visit.

Seminar on climate change in Quy Nhon city -Garbage classification started

function goto_link(ID) {window.location = '/monrenet/Default.aspx?tabid=259&ItemID='+ID;} 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.

Conservation plan to help reduce energy costs

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

Vietnam Company introduces dissolving bags

A Vietnamese company has released its first batch of self-dissolving plastic bags – a product that promises to solve a big environmental problem.

Biogas programme helps save fuel costs

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.

Lao Cai Province Preserves and Promotes Ethnic Cultural Identity

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.

Safe-tea project launched in 35 provinces

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.