General News

  • Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development fully supports the initiative of setting up a Food Transparency Association aiming to connect producers in supplying clean and safe foodstuffs to consumers, said Deputy Minister Tran Thanh Nam...
    Monday, 20th June, 2016
  • Education for Nature–Vietnam (ENV) said on June 8 it had rescued nine wild animals with assistance from local units after following up on reports from local residents and volunteers.  Among the rescued animals are five sea turtles, three long-...
    Monday, 20th June, 2016
  • The Standing Committee of Vietnam’s National Assembly (NA) has said that the government should report massive fish death issues to the NA in its upcoming plenary meeting slated for July 20-30. The government should prepare report to lawmakers on the...
    Monday, 20th June, 2016
  • Authorities in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Tri have detected 30 tons of frozen mackerel scads (Decapterus lajang) contaminated with phenol, a very harmful chemical substance belonging to a local seafood trader. Tran Van Thanh, director of...
    Monday, 20th June, 2016
  • Authorities in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi plans to invest a combined of VND20 trillion ($888 million) in dredging nine polluted rivers to give them vitality, the municipal government’s mouthpiece Hanoi Moi newspaper reported. The regenerating...
    Monday, 20th June, 2016
  • Vietnam has been ranked the 5th country affected by the worst consequences caused by climate change globally, state media reported, citing the minister of Science and Technologies. Vietnam is among countries to suffer from sea level rise, which has...
    Monday, 20th June, 2016
  • A reservoir storing toxic red mud that is generated in the extraction process of titanium mining in Vietnam’s central province of Binh Thuan got broken in the early hours of June 16, resulting a huge volume of red mud spilling out onto roads and...
    Monday, 20th June, 2016
  • The Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU) and the Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM) have been named among the top 150 Asian universities in the 2016 QS rankings, state media reported. VNU was ranked 139th this year, compared...
    Monday, 20th June, 2016
  • The governments of Vietnam and the U.S. have put Agent Orange in their agendas and the U.S. is gradually increasing funding to victims of Agent Orange/dioxin in Vietnam, the newswire Washington Post has reported. The U.S. Congress allocated $7...
    Tuesday, 14th June, 2016
  • A documentary featuring a young victim of Agent Orange, by director Courtney Marsh, will be screened shortly at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Titled “Chau, Beyond the Lines”, the documentary explores how Le Minh Chau realized his...
    Tuesday, 14th June, 2016