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Vietnam’s energy transition faces challenges: experts

Vietnamese and Danish lawmakers and experts talk about barriers that Vietnam has faced in energy transition to reach sustainable development goals, experience from Denmark and the two countries’ partnership in the field.

 

Assoc. requests no discrimination between foreign and domestic investors in Vietnam

 Foreign investors doing businesses in Vietnam through major capital contribution or establishing a company should be given the same treatment as its domestic peers.

Students face difficulty in entering State-owned high schools in HCM City

 State-owned high schools throughout HCMC will receive around 70,000 10th-grade students for the 2019-2020 school year while more than 100,000 students will finish secondary school in the academic year 2018-2019.

Pesticide products with chlorpyrifos-ethyl, fipronil banned in Vietnam

 The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has recently issued a decision to remove plant protection products containing chlorpyrifos-ethyl and fipronil from the list of those allowed for use in Vietnam.

School drop-outs increase as children in mountainous areas lose subsidies

 Hundreds of pupils in the mountainous areas of Quang Nam Province may stop going to schools as government is going to stop providing food to boarding schools.

Ministry releases anti-dumping duties for import stainless steel products

 The Ministry of Industry and Trade on July 4 released anti-dumping duties on imported cold-rolled stainless steel products after its second review for application of the duties.

Measures taken to preserve biodiversity in U Minh Thuong National Park

 As many as 140 hectares of forest will be planted in the U Minh Thuong National Park in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang this year, while various measures will be carried out to preserve biodiversity in the park.

Vietnam National University, University of California further cooperation

HCM City always creates good conditions for the Vietnam National University (VNU), Ho Chi Minh City and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to cooperate in post-graduate training and medicine research.

Environmental incident compensation in central region mostly completed

 Compensation for residents affected by last year’s marine environmental incident in the four central provinces of Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Thua Thien-Hue has been mostly completed.