Green strategy key to sustainable growth
Sustainable development will depend on a shift to a green economy, officials said at a seminar held in HCM City on March 15.

Sustainable development will depend on a shift to a green economy, officials said at a seminar held in HCM City on March 15.
A three-day conference on developing towns that are well adapted to face climate change challenges opened on March 13 in Mekong Delta's Can Tho City.
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) has announced the national climate change strategy and climate change and sea level rise scenario for Vietnam.
HANOI – Denmark will continue providing official development assistance (ODA) for Vietnam until 2015, said Mogens Lykketoft, speaker of the Danish parliament, at his meeting with Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.
A technical assistance project for the national target programme on climate change resilience in transport energy has been launched.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade on Feb. 28 launched a campaign in response to Earth Hour 2012 in Vietnam.
The Ministry of Transport and the UK Embassy in Vietnam jointly held a workshop on developing green vehicles in Hanoi on Feb. 17.
Cooperation in dealing with climate change, especially developing green transport, is a big part of the strategic partnership between Vietnam and the UK, UK Ambassador to Vietnam Antony Stokes said.
The World Bank (WB) on Feb. 2 approved a 70 million USD credit project to help Vietnam tackle climate change challenges.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung urged the National Committee on Climate Change to promptly complete a national action plan on climate change, while chairing the committee’s first session in Hanoi on Jan. 11.
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HCM CITY — In Viet Nam, deaths from drowning happens around exactly the same rate as using their company causes until age five, if this starts to improve, research through the Alliance for Safe Children and UNICEF finds.A study entitled "Child Drowning: Evidence For any Recently Recognised Reason For Child Mortality in Low And Middle Earnings Nations in Asia" interviewed Bangladesh, Cambodia, Thailand, and Viet Nam besides Beijing and Jiangxi Province in China.The price of drowning prevention among