OTHER NEWS
Viet Nam and the ADB sign $1.38 billion Water, Environment, Transport Deal
06/05/2011|05:28:00
(VietNamNet Bridge)-Today the Governor of the State Bank of Viet Nam, Nguyen Van Giau and the President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Haruhiko Kuroda, signed a US$1.38 billion financial assistance deal set to help increase access to clean water, conserve threatened forests and ease urban gridlock throughout Viet Nam.
A proposal to collect emission fees from automobiles and motorbikes
21/04/2011|10:42:00
At the meeting to finalize the project “Support information and data collection to set up a national plan on air pollution control in Vietnam” on March 17 in Hanoi, a representative from the Ministry of Transport suggested that in the coming time it is necessary to collect emission fees directly from traffic participants.
Ca Mau confronts receding future
20/04/2011|03:17:00
CA MAU — The Ca Mau headland could disappear altogether if authorities fail to prevent rock falls into the sea and soil erosion by wind and rain, environmentalists said on Wednesday.