The Permanent Mission of Vietnam to the United Nations (UN) chaired an online meeting of the Group of Friends on the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) on July 21.
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will provide 1,600 cold boxes to preserve COVID-19 vaccines for Vietnam to serve the transportation of vaccines to inoculation stations, as requested by Vietnam’s National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology.
Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha and Director General of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Marco Lambertini discussed cooperation programmes on environmental and nature protection between the two sides during their virtual talks on July 13.
Nguyen Van Thai, Director of Save Vietnam’s Wildlife (SVW), has become the first Vietnamese wildlife conservationist and the only Asian so far to have received the 2021 Goldman Environmental Prize - the world’s most prestigious award for grassroots environmental activists.
More than 1,200 French-style villas in Hanoi constructed before 1954 will be examined to evaluate their states, values and need for preservation by the municipal People’s Committee.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism will develop a plan on preserving, restoring and promoting folk songs, dances and music of ethnic minority groups in tandem with boosting tourism for the 2021 – 2030 period.
A chain of conferences to assess the management, protection and promotion of the value of Vietnam's intangible cultural heritage recognised by UNESCO, is scheduled to take place in April 2021, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has urged the National Council for Cultural Heritage to focus more on the preservation and promotion of relics to make them a source of strength for national development.
The total aquatic catching and production of the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang fetched 836,175 tones in 2020, surpassing the yearly target by 10.75 percent, according to a local official.
Conservation is key to sustainable development of fisheries resources, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) Phung Duc Tien has said.
Nha vuon (garden houses), which dots around Hue city in the central province of Thua Thien – Hue, offer visitors a glimpse into a spellbinding ancient architecture.
The preservation and development of traditional craft villages depends heavily on young people, who are able to refresh the products’ image and bring them closer to consumers.
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) and the United Nations Development Programme in Vietnam (UNDP) organised the closing workshop of the project titled "Conservation of Critical Wetland Protected Areas and Linked Landscapes" in Hanoi on November 26.
The Vietnamese Government has committed to joining hands with governments in the region and the world to reduce biodiversity loss by 2030 for sustainable development.
Legislators raised issues regarding hydropower and forest preservation and development during the 10th sitting of the 14th National Assembly in Hanoi on November 3.
A project on incorporating natural resource management and biodiversity preservation goals into socio-economic development planning and biosphere reserves management in Vietnam was launched in Hanoi on October 27.
In recent years, the preservation and development of water puppetry has been paid attention by many localities, including the northern province of Nam Dinh.
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