Social Affairs

Vietnam has huge potential for developing wind power but the country currently needs the big initial investment, technical complexity and quality technicians to take full of opportunities to boost the sector in the coming time.

Ministries must soon devise effective measures for solving some emerging socio-economic issues so that these problems won’t affect the execution of the development plan in the whole 2016 and in Q1 next year, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc made the requirement at the Government’s monthly meeting in Hanoi on November 28.

People’s Artist Le Khanh, football player Hoang Vu Samson, and Miss Vietnam 2016 Do My Linh will participate in Hanoi Run for Children 2016 that will take place in Hanoi`s Thong Nhat Park from 7:00 am on December 11.

Anna Shreyoegg, chief technical advisory of a project by the German Federal Enterprises for International Cooperation, better known as GIZ, said at the conference on November 23 that Vietnam has proved its strong commitment to combating climate change and has forged a leadership role for the region in the combat.

The Australian Government will support comprehensively Vietnam to implement a Gender Equality Strategy for the first time in 2016-2020 period, according to the Australian Embassy in Vietnam.

The 14th National Assembly passed a resolution on piloting the issuance of e-visa for foreigners at the second session’s sitting on November 22 with a 91.08 percent approval.

The first ASEAN Traffic Police Forum, an initiative of Vietnam, kicked off in Hanoi on November 21.

Representatives from 60 businesses in Mimasaka city of Japan’s Okayama prefecture and locals have attended a workshop in the locality to study investment and business opportunities in Vietnam.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc expressed his wish that the Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM) will become a source of brainpower and start-up incubation, at the working session with the VNU-HCM staff on November 20.

At the meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung in Hanoi on November 18, European Commissioner for Environment Karmenu Vella stressed that the European Union pledges to assist Vietnam in climate change response and the development of green marine-based economy.

Vietnam ranked second in the number of trainees fleeing from their workplaces in Japan in 2015, according to a report from the Japanese Ministry of Justice’s Immigration Bureau.

Books from Vietnam are now available at the “Vietnam Book Corners” which were inaugurated on November 4 at the National Library and Jadavpur University in the eastern city of Kolkata, India’s West Bengal State.

Energy is used in every part of the country’s economy - powering homes, businesses, factories, and cars, said speakers at a seminar on November 7 in Soc Trang Province.

The Japan International Cooperation Agency and the Institute of Transport Science and Technology (ITSC) under the Ministry of Transport jointly held a conference in the central city of Da Nang on October 11 to review a project to develop landslide risk assessment technology along the transportation arteries in Vietnam.

International volunteers from Habitat for Humanity have joined the “Vietnam Big Build 2016” project to build houses for 20 poor families in Tam Nong district, northern Phu Tho province.

Vietnam’s Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh attended the third International Wildlife Trade Conference which opened in Hanoi on November 17.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has issued Circular 26/2016 to regulate the classification of marine areas based on the level of risk of pollution.

Asked about recovery efforts from the recent environment incident, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha said the ministry has established a group of prestigious scientists to monitor the quality of waste and exhaust fume as well as discharges of Taiwan-invested Formosa steel company in the central province of Ha Tinh.

The Republic of Korea (RoK) is willing to share all information about soldiers who were killed or went missing in action during the war in Vietnam.

Vietnamese architect Hoang Thuc Hao, a lecturer at the National University of Civil Engineering, has won a gold medal at the SIA-Getz Architecture Prize for Emergent Architecture in Asia 2016 for his design “happiness architecture”.