Social Affairs

Russia`s Sputnik radio broadcaster on June 27 reported that in the context of intensifying the fight against corruption, Vietnam organized a national anti-corruption conference with the main theme of the fight against "internal invaders."

Vietnam’s Health Ministry and the Vietnam fund for prevention of tobacco harm on June 26 held a meeting for the tobacco control working groups in Vietnam.

Vietnam will join global efforts to stop producing and using disposable and non-recyclable plastic products, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha told Executive Director of the UN Environment Program (UNEP) Erik Solheim.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) in collaboration with the Da Nang People`s Committee organized the “Join hands for ocean protection” campaign on June 26, aiming to clean the beaches and plastic waste.

Achim Steiner, United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Administrator and Vice-Chair of United Nations Sustainable Development Group, on June 26 started his two-day visit to Vietnam, focusing on the nation’s sustainable development.

Addressing a national conference on anti-corruption held in Hanoi on June 25, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong affirmed that the anti-corruption campaign is at a crucial stage.

Waste backlogs have been found in Vietnam seaports recently due to the unusual increasing litter flow. The country is struggling to deal with this issue.

Flash floods and landslides caused by heavy rains on June 23 and 24 in Vietnam’s northern provinces have left serious consequences.

The Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs (CEMA), the World Bank (WB) in Vietnam and the Australian Government on June 22 co-launched the “Value chains idea” contest to support ethnic minority communities in Vietnam.

Human trafficking remains an unsolved issue in Vietnam in particular and Southeast Asia in general.

The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) is holding a regional workshop on prevention strategies to combat trafficking in persons (TIP), especially for women and children at Sheraton Hanoi Hotel on June 21-22.

The European Union (EU) and European countries have been carrying out a number of climate change adaptation and sustainable development projects in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam.

The Hanoi Department of Transport has recently issued a document on enhancing traffic safety and order in auto transportation business.

An Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Forum on dealing with climate change effects started in Vietnam`s southern province of Can Tho on June 19.

A meeting was held in Lao Cai province of Vietnam on June 17 in response to the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought (WDCD).

Da Nang will host the 6th Assembly of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and related meetings, which are expected to draw participation of nearly 1,500 delegates, including the ministers in charge of environment and senior officials from 183 member countries.

​The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Vietnam has launched a parenting skill website, encouraging fathers together to share their parenthood experiences.

The first ever Hanoi International Marathon will be held on April 14, 2019.

As many as 67 works were honored at the National External Information Service Awards 2017 ceremony at the headquarters of Vietnam News Agency in Hanoi on June 14.

The Hanoi People’s Committee has recently released a plan on deploying specific tasks to develop clean water supply system in the capital by 2020.