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Underground water exhausted, high costs predicted for future Besides intense subsidence and increase in tidal amplitude and saline intrusion, Minderhoud said that ground water is being extracted excessively for local production. This could result in depletion of aquifers, while the recharge for water stocking is very little due to impermeable layers in the subsoil. As a consequence of extraction, the water from salty aquifers intrudes into the freshwater reserves. With current subsidence, for each cubic metre of fresh ground water that is extracted from the aquifers, another 12 cubic metres of fresh water will get too salty for consumption. Therefore, if there is no good control, the fresh groundwater reserve in the Mekong Delta region will last for only 100 years. Besides, the subsidence level will be more serious, the Dutch researcher said. According to the expert, if the ground water extraction continues to grow 2 percent each year, the Mekong Delta will sink under the sea … [Read more...] about Sinking predicted for Mekong Delta region

The UNDP is delighted to have partnered with Thomas Piketty (author of the best-sell­ing book Capital in the Twen­ty-First Century) and his team at the World Inequality Lab to produce this report which focus­es on new ways of measuring and approaching inequalities. The topic of the report in 2019 is a pertinent one as systemic in­equality is deeply damaging our society and harming the human development progress. … [Read more...] about Closing inequality gaps to secure long-lasting progress

“We have exported jasmine and japonica rice to high-end markets at rather high prices. ST24 and ST25 have met the requirements of demanding markets. Yet we have limitations in exporting premium rice to fastidious markets. Official agencies and businesses need to identify and address them. … [Read more...] about It’s a no-grainer: Time for Vietnam to create a rice brand

The Resolution No.52-NQ/TW of the Politburo in 2019 on guidelines and policies for Participation in the fourth Industrial Revolution orients the digital transformation in Vietnam, of which Vietnam's Politburo has set a target of raising the digital economy’s contribution to gross domestic product (GDP) to 30 percent by 2030. … [Read more...] about Vietnam has huge development opportunities

Particularly, popular social networks focused on the second summit between the two leaders of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the United States hosted in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi as well as the country was elected as non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for 2020-2021 term with a record high number of 192 votes out of the 193 member countries. Vietnam is expected to enter the coming new year with new achievements and great responsibility as undertaking ASEAN Chairmanship and non-permanent member of UN Security Council for the period of 2020-2021. * New context and missions In 2020, Vietnam will take over the ASEAN Chairmanship and a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council in the context of complicated and unpredicted changes in the region and the world. In the world, the increases of contacts, strategic competitiveness among powerful countries and harsh forces mobilization have been impacting to … [Read more...] about Confident Vietnam in 2020: FM spokeswoman