VOV.VN - The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) on January 28 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aiming to deal with the complex challenges of climate change and environmental pollution.

VOV.VN - Vietnam will reduce the excise tax and registration fee placed on electric cars, with these two preferential policies anticipated to become a lever in which the local electric vehicle market, which is in its infancy, can quickly develop in 2022.

Vietnam holds great potential in medical tourism development as it boasts a lot of mineral hot springs and mud, and has many areas with temperate climate, heard a webinar seeking ways to develop medical tourism in the country on October 6.

Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son, as Chair of the UN Security Council (UNSC) for April, presided over an in-person and online ministerial open debate of the council on the theme “Protection of Objects Indispensable to the Survival of the Civilian Population” on April 27.

The authorities in the central province of Thanh Hoa has fined a foreign-funded limited company VND335 million (US$14,527) for its violations of environmental protection regulations.

The US’s experience in environmental management and air quality control in Vietnam were touched upon at a seminar in Hanoi on January 25.

VOV.VN - The capital is currently enduring the most hazardous level of air pollution since early winter, according to the monitoring application PAMAir.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has been compiling a directive of urban air pollution control which is set to be issued in August.