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World Bank funds Vietnam’s largest wastewater treatment plant in HCMC

October 30, 2013 in /by

The government has approved a World Bank-funded project to build the country’s largest wastewater treatment plant in Ho Chi Minh City. Source: worldbank.org The US$524 million project is in fact part of the second phase of the HCMC Environmental Sanitation Project, which began in 2001. The bank will provide $450 million and the rest will come from […]

Building Sustainable Pangasius Value Chain in Vietnam

August 5, 2013 in /by

The project “Establishing sustainable Pangasius value chain in Vietnam” is set to be launched in August and implemented in four years from 2013 to 2017 with a total budget of EUR 2.37 million, or an equivalent of more than VND 64 billion. According to the General Department of Fisheries, the Vietnamese pangasius industry has dramatically […]

Global warming? No, the planet is getting cooler

June 10, 2013 in /by

More than a million square miles of Arctic seas have frozen in the past year as a new environmental trend takes hold, dubbed “global cooling”. The extraordinary “reverse” of global warming has led to a 60 per cent rise in ice-covered ocean. Just six years ago, some scientists were predicting that all of this ice […]

Value Chain of Bamboo and Rattan

April 15, 2013 in , /by

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTEai3GGuqM Joint programme entitled ‘Green Production and Trade to Increase Income and Employment Opportunities for the Rural Poor’ in Vietnam. The programme’s approach is to develop better integrated, pro-poor, and environmentally sustainable “green” value chains, enabling poor growers, collectors and producers to improve their products and link them to more profitable markets. The complex challenges […]