The building of disaster risk assessment tools for enterprises is significant in improving their awareness of the risks, said a representative from the Asia Foundation.
Politburo member and Secretary of HCM City’s Party Committee Dinh La Thang has asked the contractor for the city’s tidal flood control project to complete construction by April 30, 2018.
The HCM City administration has instructed competent agencies to provide all assistance to a company undertaking flood prevention works to ensure there are no delays.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has urged the south central province of Ninh Thuan to give more specific policy commitments to win investors’ confidence.
Construction of a major flood-prevention project in HCM City will now last 24 months instead of 36 months as previously approved by the city People’s Committee.
The government of HCM City on June 3 signed a 450-million-USD contract with a private company for a project to prevent tidal flooding in a 570-sq km area of the city.
Trung Nam Power Joint-stock Company has signed an emission trading deal
with Germany's Deutsche Bank to sell the emissions from its Dong Nai
Hydropower Plant No 2 for the first 10 years of its operation.
Authorities in the central province of Ninh Thuan last Friday
approved the construction of a wind-power plant with capacity of 200MW
on a 900ha-land plot in Thuan Bac District's Loi Hai and Bac Phong
Communes.
The HCM City-based Trung Nam Construction Investment JSC (Trung Nam
Group) on August 14 signed a design-consultancy contract for the Quan
Nam – Thuy Tu Ecological Urban Area with the US-headquartered design
firm Skidmore Owings and Merrill LLP (SOM).
Building green urban areas is a new
trend on Vietnam’s realty market, said Business Director of the Viet
Hung Urban Development and Investment Joint Stock Company (Vihajco)
Holger Molendyk.