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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Central Highlands province of Kon Tum supported nearly 10,000 ethnic minority and poor households in obtaining housing and farming land and accessing clean water from 2014 to May this year, reported the provincial Committee for Ethnic Minority...
The Prime Minister has just approved a program to enhance the training of the Vietnamese language among ethnic minority children for 2016-2020, with an orientation through 2025. Under the project, communication work will be promoted to raise the...
The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang has been striving to offer improved education and training to the local Khmer ethnic group, with positive outcomes recorded. Kien Giang is home to more than 216,850 Khmer ethnics, who account for about 12.5%...
