Vietnam’s national team will be without their top scorer, one of their core centre backs and their trusty translator before their last match in the World Cup qualifiers against Japan in Saitama on March 28.
Education ministers of ASEAN member countries met UK government officials and education specialists to discuss education challenges following COVID-19 on March 16.
A diplomat of Vietnam underlined the importance of ensuring equality and justice in climate change response, with climate finance commitments being fully implemented on the basis of common but differentiated responsibility.
As COVID-19 has yet to be brought under control, great challenges are still present in the education and training sector in 2022, Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son has said.
The Mekong Delta, which comprises 13 localities, is facing a severe shortage of human resources due to its population changes over the past years, which requires proper solutions and strategies to address.
After 10 years implementing the National Strategy on Nutrition (2011-2020), Vietnam is still facing a lot of problems such as a rapid increase in childhood obesity, a big gap in malnutrition between regions and a high percentage of children with micronutrient deficiencies. Vietnam is facing dual problems of child nutrition: deficient and redundant in nutrients.
While over-nutrition can lead to chronic diseases, under-nutrition seriously affects the mental and physical development of children, and both have long-term consequences.
More than two years since the COVID-19 pandemic first appeared, and with no sign it will end in the near future, the government switched its COVID-19 prevention and control strategy to adapting and safely living with the pandemic.
Vietnam’s cashew nut exports saw encouraging growth this year despite COVID-19-induced restrictions, shipping container shortage and rising logistics costs, statistics of the General Department of Vietnam Customs show.
Vietnam’s consistent policy of protecting and promoting human rights has been clearly shown in the context of COVID-19 posing unprecedented challenges to global efforts in protecting human rights.
President Nguyen Xuan Phuc, who is also Chairman of the National Defence and Security Council, has requested the council’s members and agencies to promote their role in ensuring the country’s defence and security, and actively prevent and cope with both short-term and long-term non-traditional security challenges.
Only through joint and timely actions, countries in the Mekong-Lancang river basin can overcome current challenges and protectcommon prosperity and culture, stated Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha.
Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the UN, chaired an UN Security Council meeting on December 3 on addressing challenges of children without parental care in conflict settings.
Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh put forward four proposals to enhance cooperation among Asian and European countries while addressing the 13th Asia - Europe Meeting (ASEM) Summit via videoconference on November 26.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted a symposium to discuss ways to strengthen Vietnam’s contribution to addressing non-conventional security challenges at multilateral forums on November 23.
Vietnam voiced support for provision of assistance to Iraq in addressing current challenges in the war-torn country during a UN Security Council meeting on November 23.
Permanent Vice Chairman of the Vietnamese National Assembly Tran Thanh Man has stated that more than ever, as the highest representative organ of the people, parliaments need to promote cooperation and uphold their power to cope with challenges more effectively.
ASEAN is at risk of losing over 35 percent of its GDP by 2050 from climate change and natural hazards, severely impacting key sectors such as agriculture, tourism, and fishing, along with human health and labour productivity, according to a report jointly conducted by Nanyang Technological University of Singapore (NTU Singapore) and University of Glasgow.
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