The Prime Minister has issued a national plan for the implementation of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP) by 2025 with a vision to 2030.
The Vietnam Information Technology (ITO) Conference 2017 kicked off in Ho Chi Minh City on October 19, aiming to introduce Vietnam as an attractive destination for IT services that is comparable to leading countries in the world.
Climate change will cause some 250,000 additional deaths from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea and heat exposure per year between 2030 and 2050, warned Director of the Department of International Cooperation Tran Thi Giang Huong on October 19.
The third Ooc-Om-Bok Festival (moon worship festival) of the Mekong Delta will take place from October 28-November 3, according to the event’s organising board.
Nearly 100 overseas Vietnamese (OV) experts, intellectuals and entrepreneurs in agriculture have given advices to Ho Chi Minh City in developing hi-tech farming during a conference in the city on October 19.
The 20th Vietnam Film Festival will take place in the central coastal city of Da Nang from November 24-28, heard a conference on October 19.
Vietnam has set a goal of entering the final of the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) Futsal Championship and earning a ticket to the 2018 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Futsal Championship.
The top 50 information technology (IT) companies of Vietnam in 2017 has total revenue of over 20.67 trillion VND (936 million USD) and employ over 35,500 people, according to the Vietnam Software and IT Services Association (VINASA).
To ensure delivery of HIV treatment services, the health sector in Ho Chi Minh City is accelerating coverage of health insurance for HIV patients as donor funding for antiretroviral (ARV) drugs and treatment will end in a few years now that Vietnam Nam has reached lower middle-income status as classified by the World Bank.
The HCM City Centre for Supporting Enterprise Development (CSED) on October 18 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with 30 organisations to provide support to SMEs, including start-ups.
The Association in Support of Poor and Disadvantaged Women and Children in central Da Nang city has raised almost 1.75 trillion VND (77 million USD) over the last 15 years for humanitarian aid.
A cultural and cuisine festival of the Republic of Korea (RoK) will take place at My Dinh Stadium in Hanoi from October 27-29, announced the RoK Embassy in Vietnam and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism at a press conference.
The International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications (ATC 2017) kicked off in the central province of Binh Dinh on October 18.
Payment and site clearance delay are major barriers to official development assistance (ODA)-funded projects in Vietnam, chief representative of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) said.
Deputy Defence Minister Sen. Lieut. Gen. Nguyen Chi Vinh and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for South and Southeast Asia of the US Dr. Joseph Felter co-chaired the Vietnam-US defence policy dialogue 2017 in Washington D.C on October 17.
The ASEAN Basketball League (ABL) will be back with a record nine teams this season, organisers announced at a press conference in Manila, the Philippines, on October 17.
Drastic efforts are crucial to ending gender inequality and violence against women and girls, said Le Khanh Luong, Vice Director of the Gender Equality Department under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.
Representatives from ministries, sectors, and firms gathered at a conference in Hanoi on October 17 to seek ways to promote tourism and attract international visitors.
