The German Organisation for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) will help the
central city of Da Nang to become the region’s most
environmentally-friendly city in the future through a project entitled
“Developing Da Nang – Environmental City”.
Planning, management and reform of public transport was the main topic
of a seminar held in the southern largest economic hub of Ho Chi
Minh City on June 10.
Hanoi ’s Department of Transport is
planning to increase the number of flexible bus routes, which skip bus
stops and bypass traffic jams by taking alternative routes, according to
deputy director of the department Nguyen Hoang Linh.
Findings from a survey released on May 5
revealed that 77 percent of Vietnamese people who had seen anti-smoking
material oppose being exposed to second hand smoke in public places.
Hanoi's Department of Transport said
it would step up public transport inspections to ensure the safety of
passengers on Liberation Day and May Day later this week.
Bus operators in the city are facing an
acute shortage of drivers which are straining their services to the
point where passengers are turning back on public transport.
The Malaysian cabinet on September 4 approved in
principal the direction, strategies and implementation methods of the
Tenth Malaysia Plan (10MP) which will commence in 2011.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will double its annual investment in clean energies to 2 billion USD to accelerate the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and support low-carbon industries in Asia, the ADB office in Hanoi has announced.
A transport strategy to enable a sustainable environment by 2020 calls on half of the population of major cities to use public transport by the end of the next decade.
