Many incinerators in Vietnam are discharging high amount of dioxins into the environment, according to a new research. The research was carried out by the project titled Environmental Remediation in Dioxin Contaminated Hotspots in Vietnam organized...
People in the Central Highlands and nearby provinces are facing the worst drought of the decade, struggling to find drinking water and watching their crops and cattle die. But 400 kilometers to their north, three people drowned last month due to...
Scientists have for the first time rung the alarm over the high dioxin concentration in emissions and waste water in waste treatment plant areas. A number of waste treatment plants have been found with having much higher dioxin concentrations than...
Education for Nature-Vietnam (ENV) will team up with forest range department in Tuyen Quang Province to inspect and rescue as soon as possible a rare monkey that is being raised illegally. An ENV representative said the organisation received the...
Vietnam’s prime minister has approved a national project to reform textbooks and curricula for schools that costs about $36 million, far lower than a $1.7 billion proposal made last year, with a view to equipping students with practical learning...
Vietnamese Deputy Minister of National Defense Nguyen Chi Vinh and U.S. majority clerk, Senate State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee Tim Reiser exchanged views on bilateral cooperation in overcoming consequences of bombs, mines...
The Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange (AO)/Dioxin (VAVA) sent an open letter on April 9 calling for support to an AO victim’s lawsuit against 26 U.S. chemical companies that produced the chemical toxins sprayed by the U.S. army in the...
Participants at a workshop held today in this central city discussed ways to perfect a new tool that identifies poor and near-poor households in Viet Nam for the 2016-20 period. Nguyen Viet Cuong from the World Bank said the tool should define poor...
A new private museum featuring traditional Muong ethnic culture has opened in the northern province of Hoa Binh. This is the second private museum in the province and the 24th in the country. Owned by culturist Bui Thanh Binh, the museum hosts...
The poverty rate among Khmer ethnic households in the Mekong Delta region was cut down to 17% by the end of 2014 thanks to efforts by authorized agencies in improving their livelihoods and ensuring social welfares. Vice Standing Chairman of the...
