The Government has defined eight key tasks to help the Mekong Delta achieve sustainable development, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc stressed in a document responding to queries from National Assembly Tran Thi Hoa Ry regarding development in the country’s largest granary.  Keep reading ...

UNESCO Hackathon at FOSSASIA Summit will take place from Saturday March 24, to Sunday March 25, 2018 at the Lifelong Learning Institute, Singapore. The event aims to bring together forward thinking citizens with innovators, hackers, scientists, and makers from around the world in Asia, create open ...

Centre for Media and Development Initiatives (MDI) and Vietnam Climate and Energy Journalism Network (VCEJ) are happy to have the Swedish Ambassador for Climate, Lars Ronnas, and top experts on climate, water, and sustainable Development as their first guests.The talk will be held on March ...

Significant achievements have bên recorded in the population-family planning work in Vietnam in the past years, including maintaining a stable population growth rate and replacement level fertility, among others. Keep reading   ...

UN Women and other partners in Viet Nam are joining hands and organizing events themed “Empowering rural women for sustainable development of Viet Nam” to commemorate the International Women’s Day in 2018.Likeminded organizations and individuals are invited to join these events.For more details, please visit ...

UC Davis’ New Viet Nam Studies Initiative and the University of Da Nang call for proposals for a summer conference in Da Nang on Viet Nam’s Sustainable and Alternative Development.Deadline: May 28, 2018 at 11:59PM (US-PST) / May 29, 2018 at 1:59PM (VN-GMT+7)For submission, please ...

UN Women, with the support of the Embassies of Australia and Canada to Viet Nam, on March 8, 2018 launched a Photo contest on Rural Women and Sustainable Development.The competition which is part of activities to commemorate the International Women’s Day 2018 aims to recognize rural ...

UNESCO Hackathon at FOSSASIA Summit will take place from Saturday March 24, to Sunday March 25, 2018 at the Lifelong Learning Institute, Singapore.The event aims to bring together forward thinking citizens with innovators, hackers, scientists, and makers from around the world in Asia, create open ...

(KPL) Almost four years ago, UNDP had a project in Xayaboury province of northern Lao PDR to help farmers in their struggles to cope with climate change.  This February, we returned to one of the villages to see how they have managed with changing weather conditions ...

Environmental watchdog Greenpeace has called Thailand’s Power Development Plan 2018 (PDP) “sugar-coated” despite its embrace of more renewable energy, saying it still hinders efforts to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. The Energy Policy and Planning Office (EPPO), which drafted the PDP, affirmed at public hearings last week ...

Awarding ceremony & Photo Exhibition Opening of the Photo Contest on Rural Women & Sustainable Development♦ Time: 14h 10/10/2018♦ Location: Vietnamese Women’s Museum – 36 Ly Thuong Kiet, Hoan Kiem, HanoiThis event is organized by UN Women in Viet Nam with the support of Australia ...

The 47th ASEAN Banking Council Meeting, hosted by the Việt Nam Banks Association (VNBA), is scheduled to take place at Furama Resort in the central city of Đà Nẵng on November 23-24.This major annual event of the regional banking community will be presented by banking ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Entrepreneurs and business owners in Laos are now able to utilise the vast expertise of Ortus Mining Laos to develop mining projects.Ortus Mining Laos, a subsidiary of Ortus Mining Capital, told Vientiane Times recently that they are focused on the development ...

Cambodia could reduce its projected carbon emissions by 57 percent over the next 30 years without taking a financial hit if it implements low-carbon development policies in five key sectors, according to a new report in the journal Energy Policy. ...

The governments of Cambodia and Japan, along with Unicef, on Tuesday jointly launched a project to prevent violence against minors. It aims to accelerate action to end all forms of it in the Kingdom, with more than one million vulnerable children increasingly protected. ...

The plenary session of the 35th ASEAN Summit officially opened in Thailand in the evening of November 2.The session is focusing on security issues, sustainable development, the environment and ocean waste.  The 35th ASEAN Summit and related meetings are expected to discuss measures to intensify the building of ...

Laos and the European Union have reached a new milestone in regards to bilateral ties, with the eighth meeting of the Joint Commission of Laos and the EU taking place in Vientiane last Friday to discuss further cooperation. The meeting was co-presided over by the ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Laos will continue to work towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in all sectors as well as intensify capacity building and awareness-raising in the area of climate change.Speaking on Tuesday at the closing ceremony of the Round Table Implementation Meeting 2019, ...

The first-ever Youth Survey on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was released during a ceremony in Hanoi on February 2. The event was co-hosted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MoPI)’s Sustainable Development Office and the Centre for Sustainable ...

On 01 August 2019, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Cambodia posted a press release on the outcome of the 52nd ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM), ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting Interface with the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights and the Meeting ...