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Ca Mau (VNA) – Visitors to the Cape of Ca Mau nowadays are attracted to not only its cultural and historical values but also community-based eco-tourism that is growing more and more strongly. Flourishing eco-tourism With abundant natural resources, the southernmost province of Ca Mau considers developing green tourism, conserving biodiversity and encouraging residents’ responsible engagement as the key to sustainably develop the tourism industry. There are 14 community-based eco-tourism sites across Ca Mau at present. Most of them are located in Ngoc Hien, Tran Van Thoi and Thoi Binh districts and Ca Mau city, according to the division for tourism management at the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism. The strong development of community-based eco-tourism has helped create jobs for local people and improve their income while facilitating their participation in forest protection. One of the outstanding eco-tourism sites is owned by Nguyen Van Nhuan, … [Read more...] about Ca Mau: People join hands in developing eco-tourism

Particularly commendable is the share of seats in parliament which places Vietnam among the top third of countries globally. However, there are important areas for improvement: Vietnam ranks among the bottom third of coun­tries globally in terms of sex ratio at birth (1.12), violence against women by non-intimate partners (34.4 per cent), and women with accounts in financial institutions or with mobile money service provid­er (30.4 per cent). … [Read more...] about Closing inequality gaps to secure long-lasting progress

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

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

“It is time for the Government to immediately do the following three things: drastically restructure rice production towards chain-based production and develop large growing areas that produce the same rice variety, minimise the use of insecticides to cut costs and produce more nice, delicious and safe rice and shift the industry’s focus from quantity to quality and from being supply-driven to market-driven.” … [Read more...] about It’s a no-grainer: Time for Vietnam to create a rice brand