VOV.VN - Vietnam’s economic resilience and competitive wages are both prominent factors in attracting investment from international firms, with 28% of respondents in the HSBC Global Connections’ survey naming these as the most important reasons behind their investment decisions in the country.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) held a workshop on August 11 to review 10 years since the implementation of the 11th Party Central Committee's Resolution on proactive responding to climate change.

The World Bank Board of Directors on July 31 approved a project worth US$129.6 million to strengthen flood resilience and improve sanitation, transport, and public space infrastructure in Nghe An province's Vinh city - a political, economic, and cultural centre of the north-central coastal region.

VOV.VN - Nikkei Asia of Japan has published an article stating that United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s trip to Vietnam underlines Vietnam's rise as a hub for manufacturing semiconductors, vehicles, and other products is good for the US.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh highlighted three core factors to ASEAN’s characteristics, values, vitality and reputation, which are maintaining independence and strategy self-reliance, turning itself into a growth epicenter and better adapting to external shocks in his remarks at the opening session of the 42nd ASEAN Summit in Labuan Bajo, Indonesia, on May 10 morning.

Alongside urbanisation, flooding in cities of Vietnam, a country highly vulnerable to climate change, is getting complicated and needs concerted solutions, according to experts.

Improving the resilience of the economy and creating a premise for the building of a self-reliant economy in association with active and extensive international integration are of special significance for Vietnam, especially in the new situation, Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung said.

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Ca Mau provincial Union of Friendship Organisations on December 20 kick-started a project on improving climate resilience of mangrove and agro-ecosystems and communities in the coastal areas of the Mekong Delta.

A working delegation led by World Bank Managing Director of Development Policy and Partnerships Mari Pangestu paid a fact-finding trip to the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on December 7 to check on the Can Tho City Development and Resilience Project.

VOV.VN - The 2022 Ho Chi Minh City friendship dialogue, the first of its kind which is getting underway on December 3-4 is expected to foster cooperation between the Vietnamese city and other localities across the globe in the following years.