The World Bank (WB) has pledged to support Vietnam’s policy-making
process as it aims to attract investment to clean energy sources such as
wind and solar power in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The central province of Phu Yen has decided to allocate over
21.7 billion VND (1 million USD) to underprivileged communes and hamlets
to help them develop infrastructure and production.
The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central Committee on February 9
launched the 2014 Tet tree-planting festival for young people in Chi
Linh town, northern Hai Duong province.
The northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang is taking the lead in
forest acreage, increasing its forest coverage to 64.3 percent in
2013, up from 31.2 percent 20 years ago.
President Truong Tan Sang on December 14 visited and presented gifts to
victims of the recent floods in three districts of the central
province of Quang Ngai.
Vietnam has experienced unusual weather developments with higher numbers
of storms and low pressures this year, which is dubbed as the Pacific
typhoon season - an event in which tropical cyclones form in the west of
the Pacific Ocean.
Communist Review presents an article by Vu Van Ninh, member of
the Party Central Committee, Deputy Prime Minister, head of the Central
Steering Committee for Sustainable Poverty Reduction in the 2011 - 2020
period.
A group of biologists have spent days trailing a troop of primates in
Kon Ka Kinh National Park, before they eventually caught up with about
30 gray-shanked douc langurs having an afternoon meal in the treetops
some 30 metres above the ground.
Local people expressed support for the Government's exclusion of
hydro-power projects No 6 and 6A on the Dong Nai River from an
electricity development master plan, with the decision being announced
by Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai last week.
The Prime Minister has asked the Ministry of Industry and Trade to
re-consider the development plans of hydro-power projects No 6 and 6A
and others along the Dong Nai River.
Vietnam’s fertile forest land and forest ecology can help reduce green
house gas emissions and climate change. But the country may prove to be
well placed to help satisfy the world’s growing demand for green
development. Report by the Vietnam Investment Review.
Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) on September 9 issued a joint
statement during RoK President Park Geun Hye’s state visit to Vietnam
from September 7-11.
The northwestern province
of Lai Chau has so far this year met or surpassed the targets in
many sectors, local leaders reported to the Steering Committee for the
Northwestern region at a meeting on August 22.
Cannon Vietnam Co., Ltd will provide over 1.2 billion VND (57,000 USD)
for the northern province of Bac Ninh to install lighting systems
in its disadvantaged communes.
World Bank-funded projects have significantly contributed to central
Quang Nam province’s education system, rural transport,
afforestation, electricity and fresh water supply.
The People’s Court in the central province of Phu Yen on January 28
began a trial of 22 members of a reactionary organisation on the charge
with conducting activities aimed at overthrowing the people’s
administration.
The Forest Sector Support Partnership (FSSP) will continue working with
the Vietnamese government to address major issues in the forestry
sector, said Juergen Hess, Co-chair of the annual review meeting of the
FSSP.
