The second APEC Policy Partnership on Women and the Economy Meeting kicked off in Hue city on September 26 with the aim to continue promoting gender equality and women’s economic participation.
Thua Thien-Hue is working to tap into solar energy potential, with the central province ripe for developing solar power.
The central province of Thua Thien-Hue plans to zone off an additional 5,500 hectares of large-scale fields to meet the target of cultivating 51,000-52,000 hectares of rice per year by 2020.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a project to develop a marine environment monitoring system in the central provinces of Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Thua Thien-Hue.
About 25,000 tourists visited the Hue imperial relic site in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on National Day (September 2), according to Director of the Hue Monuments Conservation Centre Phan Thanh Hai.
A ceremony to present Odon Vallet scholarships to 193 outstanding students took place in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on September 1.
Quang Loi Lagoon, about 30km in the north of Hue city, is part of the Tam Giang lagoon system. It covers almost 800ha in Quang Loi commune of Quang Dien district, central Thua Thien-Hue province.
A conference took place in hua Thien – Hue to discuss the protection and resilience of the marine ecosystem in the waters in the 4 central regions that suffered from mass fish deaths last year.
The Hue Relics Preservation Centre and the Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper held a ceremony in the ancient city of Hue on August 29 to receive holy earth from Truong Sa archipelago to mix into “Xa Tac” platform.
Some 100 new undergraduate students with difficult backgrounds in Thua Thien-Hue province were presented scholarships at an event titled “Tiep suc den truong” on August 28.
The central province of Thua Thien-Hue has received social welfare projects funded by the US and Germany, with combined investment of nearly 87,000 USD.
The iconic iron bridge Truong Tien in the former imperial capital of Hue is getting an overhaul in an effort to return it to its design under the era of the country’s last emperor Bao Dai (1926-1945).
Residents of Van Cu village in the central province city of Hue have been making rice noodles for some 400 years. But while their livelihoods fared well, their health did not.
A red-shanked douc langur (pygathrix nemaeus) was handed over to the Cuc Phuong national park in the northern province of Ninh Binh by forest rangers in Phu Loc district, the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on August 14.
The Thua Thien-Hue provincial People’s Committee and national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines signed on August 11 a cooperation agreement on promoting tourism development in the Hue ancient imperial city.
A Japan-funded project on operating reservoirs in emergency and manage floods effectively using a comprehensive disaster management platform was signed in the capital city of Hanoi on August 10.
Leaders of the central province of Thua Thien-Hue and the Lao province of Sekong signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation in various fields during their talks in Hue city on August 9.
The central province of Thua Thien-Hue has invested 3.8 billion VND (167,162 USD) to repair the Trang Tien Bridge crossing Huong River, in Hue city.
