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Japan lauds Vietnam’s role in Mekong-Japan cooperation: Ambassador
Japan highly values Vietnam’s important roles in the Mekong-Japan cooperation mechanism, according to Vietnamese Ambassador to Japan Nguyen Quoc Cuong. In his interview granted to Vietnam News Agency on the threshold of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s visit to Japan and his participation of the 10th ...
Asian supreme audit assembly concludes, adopts Hà Nội Declaration
Member states’ audit offices pledged commitments to sustainable development via promoting environmental audits and stronger anti-corruption measures. Keep reading ...
Laos’ hydropower policy puts Vietnam in a dilemma
The proposal to buy electricity from Lao hydropower plants has been facing opposition from many researchers, who say that benefits are small compared with the costs. []The communities living along the Mekong are increasingly vulnerable to similar disasters and threatened by serious environmental problems with plans ...
Successfully hosting WEF ASEAN, a focus of Vietnam's foreign policy in 2018
The World Economic Forum ASEAN (WEF ASEAN) is scheduled to take place in Hanoi in mid-September. []In 2016, at the initiative of Vietnam, the first WEF on the Mekong region was held in Hanoi to connect and promote the Mekong region with the world’s largest corporations. Keep ...
HCM City seeks ways to curb CO2 emissions from vehicles
Air pollution in HCM City caused by vehicles has become even more serious than the level of pollution emitted by industrial zones, environmental experts say. The amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the city is estimated to be 38.5 million tonnes per year, making up ...
Vietnam goes solar
With electricity demand in Vietnam growing 12 percent annually, the Vietnamese government has set a goal to generate 265 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity by 2020 and 570 billion kWh of electricity by 2030. This is to meet the surging demand for power resulting from ...
Waterways in Mekong Delta losing valuable alluvium
For a long time, saltwater in Mekong Delta was always considered an ‘enemy’ because it could not be used for rice cultivation. But it should be seen as a valuable natural resource which could help develop a sea-borne economy. Read more ...
Vietnam’s Mekong quandary: settling the sediment issue
As the biggest loser, Vietnam has to use its influence to limit dam damage on Mekong Delta, says Mekong specialist Richard Cronin. []Already, upstream dams in China and on major Lower Mekong Basin (LMB) tributaries in Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam have trapped a major share of ...
Vietnam continues aid to victims of Lao dam collapse
The High Command of Military Region 5 and the South Laos Friendship Co., Ltd are continuing to direct their units to send personnel to the Lao province of Attapeu to help local residents affected by of the collapse of the Sepien-Senamnoi hydropower dam overcome the ...
More aid from Vietnam reaches survivors of Lao dam collapse
The National Committee for Disaster Response and Search and Rescue has asked the Ministry of National Defence to join disaster relief efforts for victims in the collapse of the Sepien-Senamnoi hydropower dam in Laos following the instruction of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc. Keep reading ...
